Cubed Paperweight with Honeycomb Bouquet
Artist: Paul Joseph Stankard (American, born 1943)
Date: 1993
Dimensions:
H: 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm)
Medium: Colorless, polychrome opaque and translucent soda-lime glasses (Schott colorless PS 5, Kugler and Italian color rods, Bullseye black plate glass), Hextol adhesive; flameworked, encased, ground, polished, laminated.
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the gift of Jefferson D. Robinson in memory of his wife, Mary Elizabeth Robinson, by exchange
Object number: 2008.158
DescriptionShort truncated obelisk (with slightly curved top and sides) of solid colorless glass encasing a suspended flower bouquet consisting of green foliage with Canadian thistle, mountain laurels, blueberries and brown-eyed Susans entwined in a honeycomb, a honeybee hovering above. Back side and base of cube are laminated with black plate glass; base ground and polished flat with wide circular ground and polished pontil; four small rubber feet at corners.
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