Paperweight with Flower

Object Name: 
Paperweight with Flower

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Object Name: 
Paperweight with Flower
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
France, probably Baccarat
Accession Number: 
83.3.129
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 5.3 cm, Diam: 7.6 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1845-1855
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Clara S. Peck
Primary Description: 
Paperweight with Flower. Colorless, polychrome lead glass; paperweight, lampwork, millefiori. Domed, circular form, enclosing a circular flower with cupped red petals on the outside, and five-lobed white cupped petals on the inside, with yellow star stamens, on a green stem, with red bud, and eight ribbed green leaves; encircled by a ring of canes, alternating blue and white and red and white; set into a "lacy" bed of opaque white twist filigree; polished pontil mark; paper label inscribed "104" in ink.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Peck, Clara S. (d. 1983), Source
1962-01-22
to
1983-05-20
George Abraham & Gilbert May, Former Collection
1962-01-22
Category: 
Paperweights
Color: 
Colorless, polychrome
colorless
Technique: 
paperweight, lampwork, millefiori
paperweights
lampworking

Exhibitions (1)

Baccarat: Paperweights and Related Glass, 1820-1860

Publications (4)

Baccarat: Paperweights and Related Glass, 1820-1860 (1990)illustrated, #19, ill.; BIB# 33477
The Clara S. Peck Collection (1984)p. 2, fig. 1, lower left; BIB# AI13749
The Clara Peck Collection (1983)illustrated, p. 2 (fig. 1, lower left); BIB# AI11335
Antique French Paperweights (1955)illustrated, p. 31, #B30; BIB# 19563