Paperweight

Germany

1845-55

  • Titles Paperweight (Descriptive)
  • Medium cast iron
  • Dimensions 2 5/16 × 2 13/16 × 3 1/4 in. (5.8 × 7.2 × 8.3 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of American Cast Iron Pipe Company, 1986.250.3
  • Work Type paperweight
  • Classification Furnishings and Equipment

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Knife handle of solid light blue jasper with white relief decoration in the form of acanthus leaves extending upward from the shank.
Small Staffordshire salt-glazed culinary, or dessert, mold in the shape of a star.
Tall, urn-shaped vase of white stoneware covered with a green variegated glaze and resting on a small, square white stoneware plinth with diaper pattern around, the round foot with overlapping leaves and band of beading at the joint, the lower body with a band of stiff leaf motifs, with a wavescroll pattern below the shoulder and two long curved handles, the elongated neck likewise with band of stiff leaf motifs and beading, the cover with band of leaves and mushroom finial.
Very simple small silver beaker of tapered cylindrical form, the main body left undecorated, the interior with a light gold wash.