Aktlen Glass Company Dresden, Modernist Advertising Paperweight with Embedded Wire Mesh Grid lion I especially love how one

I especially love how one of the faces (at right in first photo) looks to me a lot like Marcel Duchamp

as all were important figures in the ceramics community of Nova Scotia during the second half of the 20th century

whether frames or boxes or whatever

a long and tall ball in cage feeling as much a modernist sculpture as a whimsy

Aktlen Glass Company Dresden, Modernist Advertising Paperweight with Embedded Wire Mesh Grid lion I especially love how oneJust recently I've been paying some attention to antique and vintage glass advertising paperweights most of them not of much interest to me, but occasionally one comes across one with a really interesting or unusual graphic. Like this one! I believe it is Bauhaus era, made by the Aktlen Industrial Glass Company in Dresden, Germany c. 1920s 30s, with the red lettering printed on transparent film suspended inside the glass, and then a layer of wire mesh