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Paperweights For Sale
Baccarat French Crystal Heart Paperweight or Decorative Object
By Baccarat
Located in New York, NY
From French luxury crystal Maison Baccarat, a beautiful clear transparent puffed heart paperweight or decorative object, circa early 21st century, Fr...
Category
Early 2000s French Paperweights
Materials
Crystal
Brian Lonsway Paperweight, Toledo OH, American Art Studio Glass, 1980
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Vintage sculptural art glass paperweight features a free-flowing central core of light amber glass and controlled bubbles, enclosed in clear glass in sommerso technique. Reflective ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Paperweights
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Sommerso
Vintage Brass and Wrought Iron Skeleton Key
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT
A vintage brass and wrought iron skeleton key. Embossed "PENN" on the side.
Shown with lifesize hand model for scale.
CREATOR Unknown.
DATE OF MANUFACTURE Unknown....
Category
19th Century Industrial Antique Paperweights
Materials
Brass, Wrought Iron
Carl Auböck Paperweight #4751-1 Paperclip, Austria
Located in Berlin, DE
Carl Auböck Huge #4751-1 paperweight in the shape of a paperclip, Austria. New.
Category
2010s Austrian Paperweights
Materials
Brass
Murano Red White Spot Italian Art Glass Mushroom Toadstool Paperweight Sculpture
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful and very unusual, vintage Murano hand blown deep red-orange and white spots Italian art glass mushroom / toadstool sculptural paperweight. The mushroom has an original impo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Paperweights
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass, Sommerso
$600 Sale Price
20% Off
Murano Art Glass Swimming Fish Aquarium Italian Vintage Sculpture Paperweight
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown Sommerso swimming fish aquarium Italian art glass paperweight / sculpture. The piece is created in the manner of designer Riccardo Licata and the ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Paperweights
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass, Sommerso
1990s Alfredo Barbini Modern Black Murano Glass Paperweight depicting an Hand
Located in Aci Castello, IT
This paperweight reflects the elegance and modern artistry of 1990s Murano glass while also carrying the signature style of one of the most renowned Venetian glassmakers of the 20th ...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Paperweights
Materials
Murano Glass
G. Giacobbe Murano Millefiori Glass Paperweight / Vase, Italy, 1950s
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
G. Giacobbe Murano Millefiori Glass Paperweight / Vase, Italy, 1950s.
Category
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Paperweights
Materials
Glass
$360 Sale Price
20% Off
Giant Green Acrylic Clothespin Paper Clip in the style of Claes Oldenburg 1980
s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Giant Green Acrylic Clothespin Paper Clip
Post Modern / 1980's
" yes...... it has a function but its real appeal is as a
"mini" Claes Oldenburg sculpture for your desk."
" some l...
Category
1980s American Post-Modern Vintage Paperweights
Materials
Acrylic
Vintage Alabaster Ashtray, Italy Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Alabaster ashtray is an original decorative object realized in Italy in the mid-20th Century.
Entirely realized in alabaster (as reported on the label under the base).
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Paperweights
Materials
Alabaster
Solid Brass Three Wise Monkeys Paper Weight , France 1970s
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
Solid Brass Three Wise Monkeys Paper Weight , France 1970s
Category
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paperweights
Materials
Brass, Bronze
$63 Sale Price
20% Off
MCM Bruce Fox Gold Anodized Aluminum 3D "Excellence" Motivation Desk Accessory
By Bruce Fox
Located in St. Louis, MO
Vintage 1970s Mid-Century Modern Bruce Fox motivational desk accessory 3D Font " Excellence " in gold anodized aluminum. In fine condition, maybe needs to clean a little better, mino...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paperweights
Materials
Aluminum
Pop-Art Enzo Mari Style Lucite Cube Sculpture
By Enzo Mari
Located in Raleigh, NC
Vintage blue lucite cube sculpture with suspended steel marbles. In the style of Enzo Mari.
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Paperweights
Materials
Lucite
Rene Lalique Glass
Deux Aigles
Paperweight
By René Lalique
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Rene Lalique clear & frosted glass 'Deux Aigles' paperweight, with details highlighted in grey staining. Features two eagle heads facing each other with a ball in their beaks. Moulde...
Category
1910s French Art Deco Vintage Paperweights
Materials
Glass
Tiffany Box and Bow Crystal Paperweight by Tiffany
Co.
By Tiffany
Co.
Located in San Diego, CA
Gorgeous iconic Tiffany box with bow crystal paperweight by Tiffany & Co. circa 1990's. The box is in very good vintage condition with no chips or cracks and measures 3"W x 3"D x 2....
Category
Late 20th Century German Modern Paperweights
Materials
Crystal
Murano Red Multi-Color Millefiori Flowers Italian Art Glass Rooster Sculpture
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful, vintage Murano hand blown Sommerso red and millefiori flowers Italian art glass rooster figure, sculpture or paperweight. Attributed to Ga...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Paperweights
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass, Sommerso, Murrine, Glass
$600 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Italian Alabaster Owl Paperweight
Located in Charleston, SC
A fantastic mid-century Italian marble paperweight with yellow glass eyes. Carved beautifully. Measures 3” x 3”. Circa 1960’s
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paperweights
Materials
Marble
Early Hiroshi Yamano Art Glass Sculpture or Paperweight, 1988
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Early Art Glass sculpture by Hiroshi Yamano features a grouping of raising controlled air bubbles in the center of a clear glass disc object. The bubbles are partially enveloped by pale green, pink, and blue colored glass layers that are flowing around and through the central structure. The underside is polished flat, adding clarity to the sculpture and emphasizing the use of negative space in the composition.
The sculpture is signed and dated by the artist in etching on the underside; it can be used as a paperweight, if desired. It is contemporary to Yamano's famous "From East to West" series, that he started in the late 1980s, while he was a graduate student at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The sculpture was created in 1988; it is evocative of flowing water and underwater views. While we don't think that the sculpture is a part of the series, it is an important early work and a reflection on his studies.
Hiroshi Yamano (b. 1956) is recognized as one of Japan's foremost and innovative glass artists. He attended the California College of Arts and Crafts, the Tokyo Art Institute, and Penland School of Crafts (where he served as an assistant), before receiving his Masters in Fine Arts degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY, in 1989. Yamano began working with glass after seeing an exhibition of Scandinavian glass in Kyoto. At California College of Arts and Crafts he studied under Marvin Lipofsky, learning the creative aspects of glass. In 1986 he worked as an instructor at Leon Applebaum...
Category
1980s American Organic Modern Vintage Paperweights
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Sommerso
Murano White Sky Blue Italian Art Glass Pear Apple Fruit Sculpture Paperweights
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown bright white and sky blue Italian art glass pear / apple fruit set. They are created in the style of designers Archimede Seguso and Alfredo Barbin...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Paperweights
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
$400 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Coq Nain, Rooster, iconic paperweight sculpture, designed by R. Lalique, France
By Lalique
Located in Puglia, Puglia
"Coq Nain" crystal paperweight, signed Lalique. Model no. 1135.
Originally created as car mascots, they were mostly designed and created by René Lalique in the mid- to late 1920s be...
Category
1950s French Art Deco Vintage Paperweights
Materials
Crystal
Arte Murano Swan Green White Sommerso Glass Figurine Paperweight
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Murano glass swan figurine or paperweight is made of white glass encased inside dark green glass in sommerso technique; controlled bubbles are used throughout the body of the swan.
Category
Late 20th Century Paperweights
Materials
Murano Glass
English Country Brass Paperweights
Located in Queens, NY
English Country style (19th Cent) brass 3 similar piece weight set with loop top (1@ 4 oz, 1 @ 1lb., 1 @ 2lbs.)
Category
19th Century British British Colonial Antique Paperweights
Materials
Brass
$390 / set
Italian Murano Art Glass Sphere Paperweight
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful vintage Italian Murano hand blown art glass paperweight, Midcentury Modern period, circa mid-20th century, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Paperweights
Materials
Art Glass, Murano Glass
Enzo Mari cubs 60‘s
By Enzo Mari
Located in Vienna, AT
Two resin cubes, each containing a sphere, designed by Enzo Mari. Made in Italy by Danese Milano, 1950s.
7 x 7 cm .. large ones
Danese Milano (Hersteller*in),Enzo Mari (Designer*in)
Category
1960s Italian International Style Vintage Paperweights
Materials
Resin
$5,889 / set
CAITHNESS - High Seas - Blue Swirl Glass Paperweight - U.K. - Late 20th Century
Located in Chatham, ON
CAITHNESS (Manufacturer) - High Seas (Collection) - H87830 (Identification Number) - Vintage art glass paperweight - striking design - si...
Category
Late 20th Century Scottish Modern Paperweights
Materials
Art Glass
Silver Plate Victorian Repoussé Magnifying Glass
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A beautiful Silver Plated magnifying glass with ornate handle of Repousse Silver.
A Wonderful addition to any sophisticated desk, used to magnify or as a paperweight.
A compleme...
Category
Early 20th Century European Victorian Paperweights
Materials
Silver Plate
Prehistoric Ammonite Fossil or Natural Specimen
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This Prehistoric fossilized ammonite is likely from Madagascar and thousands of years old. This fossil is free standing and could be used as a unique design element as a natural specimen...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Malagasy Prehistoric Antique Paperweights
Materials
Stone
Baccarat Paperweight Gridel Millefiori B1847
By Baccarat
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Heading : Baccarat Paperweight Gridel Millefiori B1847
Date : 1847
Origin : France
Features : Millefiori gridel canes, monkeys, birds, flowers, horse, and devil interspersed with lat...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Paperweights
Materials
Glass
FORNASETTI Umbrella Stand
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage Italian metal umbrella stand, featuring a design of casa con colonne on the outer cover. The interior is green, and the top is accented with a brass rim, with original alumin...
Category
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Paperweights
Materials
Metal
$3,149 Sale Price
30% Off
Glass paperweight with Churba vitrofusion technique
Located in Autonomous City Buenos Aires, CABA
Churba glass paperweight with vitrofusion technique
Beautiful paperweight from the 70s made of Churba glass, using the vitrofusion technique, it has a striking design of veins encaps...
Category
20th Century Argentine Post-Modern Paperweights
Materials
Art Glass
Barbini Murano White Gold Flecks Pink Italian Art Glass Bird Figure Paperweight
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown white, pink and gold flecks Italian art glass bird on base figurine, paperweight. Documented to designer Alfredo Barbini, circa 1950-60s. The bird...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Paperweights
Materials
Gold Leaf
$450 Sale Price
25% Off
Pop Art "Coca Cola"/ Coke Bottle in Lucite Sculpture / Paperweight
Located in San Diego, CA
A really fun pop art "Coca Cola" / Coke bottle in lucite sculpture / paperweight, circa 1970s. The sculpture is in good vintage condition with minor markings and crazing due to age;...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paperweights
Materials
Lucite
Grey Agate Onyx Decorative Object or Display Piece
Located in New York, NY
A substantial polished natural agate/geode/onyx decorative object in shades of grey and white. Piece can be used as a decorative piece for a shelf, table, desk, etc., or as a display...
Category
20th Century Unknown Organic Modern Paperweights
Materials
Onyx, Quartz, Agate
$380 Sale Price
41% Off
Large English Antique Brass Desk Magnifying Glass / Paperweight c.1910
Located in Bath, GB
Always very popular and a very useful desk-top accessory, this one is one of the larger examples, quite an imposing size. These large circular magnifiers actually are the condenser o...
Category
1910s British Edwardian Vintage Paperweights
Materials
Brass
1950s Fornasetti Paperweight in Porcelain by Piero Fornasetti
Located in Milano, IT
1950s Astonishing rare porcelain paperweight designed by Piero Fornasetti with butterflies. Handmade.Made in Italy. Heavy ceramic construction for use as beautiful desk accessories. ...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paperweights
Materials
Ceramic
Antique God Atlas Sterling Silver Figural Wax Seal Stamper. German 19-Century.
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
Antique God Atlas Sterling Silver Figural Wax Seal Stamper.
Rara Antique, circa 1850, wax seal stamp.
Moldelled as the God Atlas (Greek Mythology).
The globe rotates.
Museum quality...
Category
19th Century German Classical Greek Antique Paperweights
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
1970s Stunning Pair of Big Italian Marble Dices, Made in Italy
Located in Milano, IT
1970s. Stunning pair of big Italian dices in white marble, in very good conditions. Made in Italy.
Dimension:
2,75 x 2,75 x 2,75 inches
7 cm x 7 cm x 7 cm H.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paperweights
Materials
Marble
Vintage Apple Pen-Holder in Green Hand-Blown Glass, 1970s
Located in Esbjerg, DK
A decorative Hand-blown pen-holder or paperweight in green glass. Italian or Czech made circa 1970-80. The pens are obviously not included.
Measurements: H: 9 cm, Diameter: 8 cm.
Category
Late 20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Paperweights
Materials
Blown Glass
Barbini Murano Pulegoso Black Gold Flecks Italian Art Glass Kitty Cat Sculpture
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown frothy bubbles, over black core and gold flecks Italian art glass cat sculpture. The piece is attributed to designer Alfredo Barbini, circa 1950s....
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Paperweights
Materials
Gold Leaf
Dalmatian Murano Glass Black White Spotted Puppy Dog Figure Paperweight
Located in Barcelona, ES
Cute hand blown Murano glass Puppy Dog Figurine Sculpture in Black and White Murrine, Italy, 1950s.
This nice doggy stands up on a small clear glass base. It has white spots on a bla...
Category
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Paperweights
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
$913 Sale Price
20% Off
Stylized Rabbit Sculpture / Paperweight by Baccarat
By Baccarat
Located in San Diego, CA
Gorgeous stylized rabbit sculpture / paperweight by Baccarat, circa 1990s. The piece is in excellent condition with no visible imperfections and has great clarity. Signed on the unde...
Category
Late 20th Century French Paperweights
Materials
Crystal
François Godebski Signed Fractal Resin Globe Sculpture in Amethyst Purple
Located in Saint-Ouen, IDF
Sculptural resin globe by François Godebski (1940–1997), France, created and dated 1980. Executed in translucent fractal resin, the work takes the form of a perfectly rounded sphere ...
Category
1980s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paperweights
Materials
Resin
Antique Baccarat Red White and Blue Convex Glass Paperweight
By Baccarat
Located in New York, NY
Antique Baccarat faceted art glass paperweight with closepack cane millefiori mushroom at center, surrounded with a blue torsade ribbon.
Paperweigh...
Category
19th Century French Empire Revival Antique Paperweights
Materials
Art Glass
Rare 1979 Donovan Leisure NYC Cia Law Firm 50th Anniversary Brass Paperweight
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Extremely rare New York City historical relic. A fiftieth anniversary brass cubic monolith commemorative desk sculpture. Issued to monogram; AWS. Approx. 45-60 members of firm a that time, only a handful were issued this paperweight in solid Brass weighing 8 lbs. 4.2 oz.
Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine was an American white-shoe law firm, located in New York. It was founded in 1929 by General William "Wild Bill...
Category
1970s American Post-Modern Vintage Paperweights
Materials
Brass
$4,400 Sale Price / item
20% Off
Italy Mid-Century Modern Style Black Crystal Faceted Table Lighter
Located in Brescia, IT
This is an elegant table lighter designed with a shape that evoques the Mid-Century Modern Italian style. A similar pattern of this design can be possible to find in the production ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Paperweights
Materials
Crystal
$721 Sale Price
20% Off
Fornasetti paper weight 1962 Zodiac calendar
Located in London, GB
Rare Fornasetti porcelain paperweight with Zodiac calendar c1962
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paperweights
Materials
Porcelain
Rugged Petrified Wood Paperweight
Located in San Diego, CA
A very nice vintage rugged petrified wood paper weight, circa old! The piece is in very good condition with wonderful brown and tan colors and measures 4.75"W x 3.75"D x 3.5"H. Cool...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Congolese Mid-Century Modern Antique Paperweights
Materials
Petrified Wood
Large Vintage Clothespin – Decorative Object
Paperweight – Circa 1970
Located in SOTTEVILLE-LÈS-ROUEN, FR
A striking and rare design piece from the 1970s, this oversized clothespin reimagines an everyday object as a sculptural and functional form. Made of deep black plexiglass (also know...
Category
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paperweights
Materials
Steel
Stylized Starfish Sculpture / Paperweight by Baccarat
By Baccarat
Located in San Diego, CA
Gorgeous stylized starfish sculpture / paperweight by Baccarat, circa 1990s. The piece is in excellent condition with no visible imperfections and has great clarity. Signed on the un...
Category
Late 20th Century French Paperweights
Materials
Crystal
Murano Art Glass Multi Color Spiral Paperweight Sculpture, Italy 1960
Located in Barcelona, ES
Beautiful abstract Murano blown glass sculpture. Artist unknown. Italy, 1960s
This art glass paperweight sculpture has an eye-catching design with spiral shape standing on a clear gl...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Paperweights
Materials
Glass, Murrine, Murano Glass, Blown Glass, Art Glass
Art Glass Heart Paperweight Decorative Object
By Robert Held
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful and substantial art glass heart paperweight or decorative object by artist Robet Held, circa late-20th century. Heart is a light blue art glass with touches of blue and p...
Category
Late 20th Century Canadian Modern Paperweights
Materials
Art Glass
Archimede Seguso Murano Pink White Gold Italian Art Glass Swan Bird Sculpture
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown dark pink to opal white, and gold flecks Italian art glass swan sculpture / figurine. Documented to designer Archimede Seguso, with original "Arch...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Paperweights
Materials
Gold Leaf
$500 Sale Price
33% Off
Vintage Murano Sommerso Orb Blue Art Glass Ashtray
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Gorgeous vintage Murano Venetian handblown art glass bowl or ashtray.
Italian Murano Sommerso Cenedese orb blue art glass ashtray.
Heavyweight glass ashtray in a gorgeous minimal design.
A very beautiful and substantial two-tone blue Italian Murano art glass cigarette ashtray...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Post-Modern Paperweights
Materials
Blown Glass
1960s by Ludovico Diaz de Santillana for Venini Murano Glass Paperweight
Located in Brescia, IT
Venini Murano Cannette glass paperweight, designed by Ludovico De Santillana.
Clear bubble over a heavy base decorated with applied filigrana cane segments.
Perfect condition.
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paperweights
Materials
Murano Glass
Seguso Murano Sapphire Blue Gold Flecks Italian Art Glass Love Birds Figurine
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown sapphire blue and gold flecks Italian art glass love birds figurine. Documented to designer Archimede Seguso. The two birds are attached to each o...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Paperweights
Materials
Gold Leaf
$400 Sale Price
20% Off
Art Deco Sculpture of a French Bulldog Bookend or Paperweight, France, 1920s
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
Art Deco or Cubist Bronze sculpture of a French bulldog bookend or paperweight.
Made of bronze, mounted over a marble base.
Made in France, 19...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Paperweights
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Antique Grand Tour Pietra Dura Specimen Top Paperweight, 19th C
Located in London, GB
This is a superb decorative antique Italian Grand Tour marble Pietra Dura mounted desk paperweight, circa 1880 in date.
This splendid rectangular paperweight is exquisitely inlaid with a sumptuous arrangement of semi-precious stones including malachite, agate, onyx and amethyst.
It is beautifully inlaid on a slate base.
Not only is this desk paperweight very functional, but it is also an exquisite mineralogical wonder that can be admired by all discerning collectors.
Condition:
In excellent condition, please see photos for confirmation,
Dimensions in cm:
Height 2 x Width 17 x Depth 10
Dimensions in inches:
Height 1 inch x width 7 inches x depth 4 inches.
Pietra dura is a term for the inlay technique of using cut and fitted, highly polished coloured stones to create images. It is considered a decorative art.
Pietre dure is an Italian plural meaning "hard rocks" or hardstones; the singular pietra dura is also encountered in Italian. In Italian, but not in English, the term embraces all gem engraving and hardstone carving, which is the artistic carving of three-dimensional objects in semi-precious stone, normally from a single piece, for example in Chinese jade.
The traditional convention in English has been to use the singular pietra dura just to denote multi-colored inlay work. However, in recent years there has been a trend to use pietre dure as a term for the same thing, but not for all of the techniques it covers, in Italian.
But the title of a 2008 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe used the full Italian sense of the term, probably because they thought that it had greater brand recognition. The material on the website speaks of objects such as a vase in lapis lazuli as being examples of "hardstone carving (pietre dure)"
The Victoria & Albert Museum in London uses both versions on its website, but uses pietra dura. "A method of inlaying coloured marbles or semi-precious stones into a stone base, often in geometric or flower patterns...."
Giovanni Montelatici...
Category
1880s Italian Antique Paperweights
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Malachite, Onyx, Marble
Jeff Seely Large Paperweight, American Studio Art Glass 1980s
By J. Seeley
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Massive, heavy paperweight features complex asymmetrical fused glass center, accentuated by groups of controlled bubbles. Three free-form string stru...
Category
Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Paperweights
Materials
Art Glass, Sommerso
Large Egg Shaped Paperweight by Liskeard Glass, England c 1970
Located in Glasgow, GB
Large art-glass paperweight, crafted in the 1970s by the renowned English glassmakers Liskeard Glass, showcases the exquisite 'bullicante' technique through its display of internal b...
Category
1970s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paperweights
Materials
Art Glass
$132 Sale Price
52% Off
Vintage Art Deco Inspired Horse Bust Paperweight
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful and unique addition to your desk. This beautiful horse bust rests on a marble base making it an understated elegant part of your décor. The base i...
Category
1970s French Art Deco Vintage Paperweights
Materials
Marble
$120 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique, New and Vintage Paperweights
While any heavy object can be used to hold loose papers, there’s nothing as ornate yet perfectly functional as a paperweight. Antique, new and vintage paperweights can unobtrusively enhance the ambience of a room or act as a colorful conversation starter. On a desk or writing table, it can contribute a subtle sense of style.
Glass paperweights emerged in Europe in the mid-19th century. Early paperweight artisans like Venetian glassmaker Pietro Bigaglia often crafted them with a design on the inside. By the early 1900s, paperweight objects became even more popular through innovative iterations by artists like Louis Comfort Tiffany.
As the paperweight became both a luxury and utilitarian object, creators used a variety of materials to set their wares apart. Today, in addition to the classic glass versions, paperweights are made of metal, wood, ceramic and stone.
A vast selection of paperweights as well as a whole range of other desk accessories can be found on 1stDibs — browse by type, price, period, material or style, from Art Deco and Hollywood Regency to metal and glass. Reflecting their widespread appeal, paperweights are available in a diverse array from across the globe, including Italy, France and North America, as well as examples by leading designers and brands such as Fratelli Toso, William Guillon and René Lalique. Whether an office or a study needs a touch of something vintage or a mid-century modern twist, there are paperweights to suit every taste.
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