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Object Name: 
Paperweight
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
probably France, Clichy-la-Garenne
Accession Number: 
56.3.110
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 5 cm, Diam: 8.3 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1845-1855
Credit Line: 
Gift of the Honorable and Mrs. Amory Houghton
Primary Description: 
Paperweight. Colorless, blue, pink, white, green lead glass; paperweight, millefiori. Domed, circular form, enclosing a six-loop garland of alternating pink and white millefiori canes, with green-and- pink canes within the loops, blue, pink and white canes outside, and with a white, green and red cane at the center; on a brilliant blue ground with white inner lining; polished concave base.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Houghton, Laura (Mrs. Amory), Source
1956-06-18
Houghton, The Honorable Amory (American, 1926-2020), Former Collection
1956
Kramer, Arthur L., Former Collection
Category: 
Paperweights
Color: 
white
colorless
blue
pink
green
red
Technique: 
millefiori glass
Material: 
lead glass

Exhibitions (1)

Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1978-04-26 through 1978-10-21

Publications (7)

Paperweights (1996-05) illustrated, p. 9; BIB# AI4309
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass (1992) illustrated, p. 155, P25; BIB# 35679
A Collector's Guide to Paperweights (1990) illustrated, Fig. 5, p. 17 (lower left); BIB# 98767
Paperweights from The Corning Museum of Glass (1987) illustrated, #5; BIB# 34353
Paperweights: Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows (1978) illustrated, pp. 53, 138, #113; BIB# 20097
The Paperweight Collection of the Honorable Amory Houghton (1978) p. 9, fig. 3; BIB# AI68290
[Paperweights from the Arthur L. Kramer collection, Dallas, TX] (1940) illustrated, p. 22; BIB# 30279