Paperweight with Dahlia

Object Name: 
Paperweight with Dahlia

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Object Name: 
Paperweight with Dahlia
Place Made: 
probably France
Accession Number: 
83.3.122
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 6.2 cm, Diam: 8.1 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1845-1855
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Clara S. Peck
Primary Description: 
Paperweight with Dahlia. Colorless, yellow, red, green lead glass (?); paperweight, lampworked. Domed, circular form, enclosing a large, domed, multi-petaled flower with red-striped, waffled petals, with pink stamens and green center; three green leaves; polished pontil mark; paper label, inscribed "93" in ink.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Peck, Clara S. (d. 1983), Source
1960-12-01
to
1983-05-20
Parke-Bernet Galleries, NYC, Former Collection
1960-12-01
Category: 
Paperweights
Color: 
Colorless, yellow, red, green
colorless
yellow
red
Technique: 
paperweight, lampworked
paperweights

Exhibitions (1)

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

Publications (3)

Story of Glass Coloring Book (1981) illustrated, p. 38 top row, center; BIB# 67749
Paperweights: Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows (1978) illustrated, pp. 68, 141, #132; BIB# 20097
The Joseph P. Levy collection of early American furniture, silver, Liverpool, Leeds & Staffordshire... paperweights (1960-12) #113; BIB# 12125