Paperweight with Pompon

Object Name: 
Paperweight with Pompon

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Object Name: 
Paperweight with Pompon
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
France, Saint-Louis
Accession Number: 
84.3.21
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 4.6 cm, Diam: 7 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1845-1855
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Clara S. Peck
Primary Description: 
Colorless, green, white lead glass; paperweight, lampworked, millefiori. Domed, circular form, enclosing a lampworked white (millefiori) multi-petaled pompon with adjacent white bud and crimped leaves; pale green and white millefiori cane of clustered ribbed tubes at the center of the flower; on a domed dark green "aventurine" ground; polished, concave base.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Langston, Dr. Junius, Former Collection
Peck, Clara S. (d. 1983), Source
1984-03-15
Kaplan, Leo (d. 2013), Source
1984-03-15
Category: 
Paperweights
Color: 
Colorless, green, white
colorless
green
Technique: 
paperweight, lampworked, millefiori
paperweights

Publications (2)

The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1984 (1985) p. 6; BIB# AI96385
The Langston Collection (1971) p. 6, fig. 8;