Paperweight
Manufacturer
Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis
(French, founded 1767)
CultureFrench
Dateca. 1845-1855
MediumSculpted glass and millefiori canes
DimensionsBase: 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm)
Overall: 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm)
Overall: 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Lewis Keyes
Object number2008.5.2
On View
Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 116-4, Case 30
Saint Louis, France
ProvenanceCollection of Lewis Keyes, Virginia Beach, Virginia; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, Bequest of Lewis Keyes, 2008 Published ReferencesPaul Hollister, Jr., _The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights_ (Santa Cruz, CA; Paperweight Press, 1987) ISBN: 978-0933756106. Similar example Paul Hollister and Dwight Lanmon, _Paperweights: Flowers which clothe the meadows_ (New York: Dover Publications; 3RD edition, 1981) ISBN: 0486241572, 978-0486241579. Similar example Diane C. Wright (editor), _Glass Masterworks from the Chrysler Museum of Art_ (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017), pg. 94-95.
Compagnie des Cristalleries des Saint-Louis
ca. 1845-1855