Topic: Big paperweight with multicolour-petaled rose

[rocco]

Big paperweight, height 10.5 cm, width 10 cm, very heavy at 1.7 kg.
Flat and polished base.
The design is one big rose flower, constructed of multicolour petals (some opaque, most translucent), which fills the whole thing.

It is quite pretty I think, looking very differently depending from which angle it is viewed.
But I am clueless as to a maker...
I don't think it is very old, neither brand new.
I am quite sure it is not Chinese, not Murano, but that's about it.

Any help highly appreciated as always

Thanks,
Michael

[rocco]

Polite bump
Any thoughts on this one?
Another "Bohemian" piece?
Or a small glass studio never to be identified?
I had a look through Brackel's book on post-classic paperweights, but didn't find anything similar...

Thanks!
Michael

[KevinH]

Unfortunately, I know nothing at all about weights like this one.

[rocco]

Thanks a lot for looking into this, Kevin!
So at least I know it will be really tough to get an ID

Michael

[KevinH]

So at least I know it will be really tough to get an ID

That makes it sound as if I know lots of things about lots of weights. That is not the case

It's just that my knowledge is restricted to Scottish (mainly Ysart style) and a bit about antique French weights with some very basic info about various other countries.

 

[w8happiness]

Hi Michael,

a nice and unusual weight, if it is European the only few clues could be Fenne/Saar or somewhere in the German glass regions,
most possible candidate I'd guess provisionally Fenne,

http://paperweights.kulturpixel.de/artikel/118_Paperweight_Briefbeschwerer_Fenner_Ei_Fenne_Warndt_Peter_Nest_Saarbruecken

(The shape of the bottom arouses some doubt- it looks like the Asian type, not neatly finished....)

Kind regards E.

[rocco]

Thanks a lot both!
@Kevin: I am sure you know 100 times more about paperweights than me (wherever they might come from )

@Erhard: thanks for the lead regarding Fenne, certainly some similarities (though the proportions are not quite right for a Fenne "egg" - the base of mine has a diameter of appr. 4.5 cm). Still the top-heavy shape seems quite close to some of the Fenne weights...

The one in the first pic of your essay >> link does seem to have very similar colours to the petals of my rose.

The base is actually quite well finished, highly polished with a smooth edge (not a feature I have come across in Asian weights so far -- but I know very little about paperweights from India or Japan, so that may well be another possibility).
The shape of the bottom seems to be due to a repair (there is a flake missing to one side, but it has been repolished quite nicely -- otherwise it would be a perfect circle). Sorry I hadn't noticed this until you mentioned it.

I bought it from a guy well into his sixties, who had inherited a big collection from his parents, several "Bohmemian" trumpet flower weights, old or new (who knows), some Murano flower weights from the 1970s/80s, and this one.
Unfortunately that doesn't help much in attribution

Michael