Stardust Carpet Ground Paperweight

Object Name: 
Stardust Carpet Ground Paperweight

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Object Name: 
Stardust Carpet Ground Paperweight
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
France, Saint-Louis
Accession Number: 
92.3.64
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 7.8 cm, Diam: 8.6 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1992
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Dunlop Collection
Primary Description: 
Stardust Carpet Ground Paperweight. Colorless and multi-colored lead glass; hand-made; fused murrine; furnace-worked and cased. Spherical shape of colorless glass enclosing a snowflake-like pattern of stars interspersed with random millefiori canes, one with "1992 SL"; lower part has a basket-like shape and two canes with twisted blue and white rods around the upper and lower edges of "basket". Marked on base "18/50".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Dunlop Collection, Source
Category: 
Paperweights
Color: 
Colorless, Multi-colored
colorless
Technique: 
handmade

Exhibitions (1)

Worlds Within: The Evolution of the Paperweight
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2006-11-16 through 2007-03-18
West Bridge Exhibit