A small, heavy object designed to hold down loose papers. The first glass paperweights were made in the 1840s in Venice and France, and their manufacture spread rapidly to other parts of Europe and the United States. Glass paperweights ceased to be fashionable in the early 20th century, but the craft of making them revived in the 1950s.
for the purposes of this book, a glass sphere or plaque enclosing decorative elements such as millefiori canes. lampworked motifs of colored glass, sulphide portraits, or metallic motifs.
Flat bottomed, often spherical top, glass. See Weight