Just north of the former French Concession in the Jing'an district, Spin's studio overflows with gorgeous and creative pieces of porcelain: paperweights in the shape of dim sum (90 renminbi), "water bag" vases that appear to be melting off their wooden stands (280 renminbi) and wearable red and black ceramic bow ties (220 to 240 renminbi).
This East 57th Street antiques shop has an impressive collection of paperweights dramatically displayed in glass cases.
Millville - SINCE the sale of his first paperweights in 1971, Paul Stankard of Mantua has had a productive and successful career that joins the contemporary studio glass movement and the historic tradition of glassmaking in South Jersey.
We are extremely grateful for this gift, which will allow us to enhance the presentation of this collection and more than double the number of works of art on display for the hundreds of thousands who visit it every year". Arthur Rubloff was one of many famous collectors of paperweights since the dawning of paperweights as art form in the mid-eighteen hundreds in France.
In case you've been wondering what type of paperweights and tablecloths communist dictators used to like, wonder no more.
Some may recoil from the black comedy of reducing these disasters to a collection of paperweights.
The president moves over to a drawer of presents he keeps on the left side of his desk, its contents organized in order of increasing value: golf balls, pens, paperweights in front, and way in the back, 16-karat gold pendants, lapel pins and brooches.
Blue Tree (1283 Madison Avenue, at 92nd), a mini department store full of treasures for that friend who's impossible to buy presents for, has lovely pewter paperweights in an assortment of snack-food styles, ranging from saltine to ice-cream sandwich ($12 to $55).
Joann Davis decided to sell the paperweights in 2011 after falling on hard times.
For many decades, the 70-year-old lacquer master has been making unique gold-sprinkled vases, glittering mother-of-pearl paperweights and golden incense boxes in his studio in Kyoto.
