Paperweight with Rose

Object Name: 
Paperweight with Rose

Notice of Upcoming Content and Access Change

The Museum is working on the future of our online collections access. A new version will be available later in 2023. During this transition period, the current version of the Collections Browser may have reduced functionality and data may be not be updated. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. For any questions or concerns, please contact us.

What is AAT?

The Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) (r) is a structured vocabulary for generic concepts related to art and architecture. It was developed by The Getty Research Institute to help research institutions become consistent in the terminology they use.Learn More

Object Name: 
Paperweight with Rose
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
France, probably Monto
Accession Number: 
91.3.92
Dimensions: 
Overall Diam: 7.9 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1870-1880
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mrs. R. Henry Norweb, Jr. in memory of The Hon. R. Henry Norweb
Primary Description: 
Colorless, opaque white, pink and green, transparent blue lead glasses; lampwork, paperweight. Solid, domed, circular form of colorless glass, encasing a multi-petaled pink lampworked rose flower of cup-shaped form, with five pointed green sepals curving around the petals; a green bud at one side, enclosing pink petals; four pincered, ribbed green pointed leaves and a curving stem at the back and sides of the flower; the flower floating slightly above a transparent bright blue layer and an opaque white backing layer; colorless glass bottom; polished concave pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Norweb, Mrs. R. Henry Jr., Source
Category: 
Paperweights
Color: 
Colorless, opaque white, pink
colorless
Technique: 
lampwork, paperweight
lampworking

Exhibitions (1)

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

Publications (6)

The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000) illustrated, p. 31, #31, bottom left; BIB# 65446
Recent Important Acquisitions, 34 (1992) illustrated, pp. 140-141, #35; BIB# AI30154
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1991 (1992) illustrated, p. 5; BIB# AI96378
Pantin Paperweight Characteristics Compared (1985-1986) pp. 10-14;
A Pantin Discovery (1981) p. 10, fig. 17; BIB# AI8117
Paperweights: Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows (1978) illustrated, pp. 80; 163, #289; BIB# 20097