Early Zimmerman Studio Art Glass Hand Blown Paperweight Table Lamp 1977
Item History & Price
Reference Number: Avaluer:301693 | Primary Material: Glass |
Color: Multi-Color | Age: Post-1940 |
Maker: Zimmerman | Original/Reproduction: Original |
Unfortunately the pictures do not do the beauty of this lamp justice. 32” to the top of the finial and 18” to the top of the glass. Beautiful multicolored trumpet flowers. Excellent condition. No chips, stains or cracks and in working order. Lamp weighs 14 pounds. Signed and dated on the bottom of the lamp.
Joseph Zimmerman was from a long line of Alsatian glassmakers. He was th...e first in his family to make lamps as well as paperweights and art glass. His works have been displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago, United Nations in New York and the Smithsonian.Mr. Zimmerman was found fatally wounded by a shotgun blast in his glass factory in Corydon in southern Indiana in July 1986.