Cubed Paperweight with Honeycomb Bouquet

Artist Paul Joseph Stankard (American, born 1943)

Date1993

DimensionsH: 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm)

MediumColorless, 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.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the gift of Jefferson D. Robinson in memory of his wife, Mary Elizabeth Robinson, by exchange

Object number

2008.158

Not on View

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.