Paperweight with Rose

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Object Name:

Paperweight with Rose

Place Made:

Accession Number:

58.3.206

Dimensions:

Overall H: 5.6 cm, Diam: 8 cm

Location:

On Display

Date:

1870-1880

Credit Line:

Gift of the Honorable and Mrs. Amory Houghton

Primary Description:

Colorless, pink, white, green, turquoise, yellow non-lead glass; paperweight, lampworked. Domed, circular form, enclosing a lampworked multi-petaled pale pink rose with yellow center, on a turquoise stem, with yellow-green and turquoise blue leaves, and a turquoise and pink bud; on an opaque white ground; rough pontil mark.

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Department:

Provenance:

Houghton, The Honorable Amory (American, 1926-2020), Former Collection

1958

Houghton, Laura (Mrs. Amory), Source

1958-12-29

Category:

Color:

Colorless, pink, white, green

Technique:

paperweight, lampworked

Exhibitions (2)

Venue(s)

Corning Museum of Glass 2002-03-21 through 2002-09-23

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 and the Finger Lakes Region (1993) illustrated, p. 45, second row, right; BIB# 35681

Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass (1992) illustrated, pp. 164-165, P46; BIB# 35679

Changing Attributions of Antique Paperweights or when "B" stood for "Bristol" (1991) p. 22, fig. 2; BIB# AI28868

Paperweights from The Corning Museum of Glass (1987) illustrated, #9; BIB# 34353

Story of Glass Coloring Book (1981) illustrated, p. 38, top row, right; BIB# 67749

Paperweights: Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows (1978) illustrated, pp. 81, 163, #292; BIB# 20097