Loren Stump
Portraits

On a silvery ground, fourteen round and oval murrine portraits, including Robin Hood, Julius Caesar, Henry the VIII, Billy the Kid, Ulysses S.Grant and others, placed in circles. At the center a murrini depicting a store with a well in front of it, two little girls and a building nearby. Clothes hang on a rope placed between the two structures. A double garland of square patterned murrine frames the weight. On the underside of the weight is a bed of brown gold flecked ground; in its center a round signature cane with the artist's full name written in calligraphic cursive with a brown ring and the date 2002.Diameter 4".

Provenance:
Portia Paperweights, Inc.
1702 N.Damen Ave.
Chicago, Illinois 60647
www.portiapaperweights.com