John Deacons

John Deacons (2015) rose piedouche paperweight. Across a large white upset muslin dome, Clichy-style roses, in a wide range of colors and in slightly alternating sizes, are loosely packed and encased within clear glass. The piece sits atop a clear pedestal threaded with blue and white latticinio twists, atop a base garlanded with a white twist torsade. Signature cane. Diameter 3 5/8". [hide]

John Deacons (2015) rose piedouche paperweight. Across a large white upset muslin dome, Clichy-style roses, in a wide range of colors and in slightly alternating sizes, are loosely packed and encased within clear glass. The piece sits atop a clear citrine pedestal threaded with latticinio twists, atop a base garlanded with a white twist torsade. Signature cane. Diameter 3 3/4". [hide]

John Deacons 2014 close-packed millefiori super magnum paperweight. A wide variety of millefiori canes in different colors and sizes, including star canes and cross shaped canes, pastry mold canes, thistle canes and many others, are embedded upon an inner encasement of translucent blue and covered in an outer encasement of clear crystal, to form a rarely found super magnum orb. Diameter 4 1/2". [hide]

John Deacons 2014 close packed millefiori gingham-cut purple double overlay paperweight. A colorful close packed arrangement of complex millefiori, including Clichy-type roses, animal silhouette canes and flower picture canes, rests within a stave basket of alternating purple, black and white canes. The central designs rests within a gingham-cut purple-over-white double overlay, with a circular top facet. Signature/date cane. Diameter 3 1/4". [hide]

John Deacons 2000 two pink clematis blooms in a rose colored double overlay paperweight. Two pink clematis blooms, each with thick white stripes through its petals and each framed by three leaves, lean from separate single-leafed stems - one to the left and the other to the right. Resting on a high cushion made of white latticinio mesh spokes, the design sits within a double overlay that blushes from pink at its base to a dusty rose at its top. Top facet and two rows of six circular side facets as well as a bottom facet with six fancy notch cuts. Signature/date cane. Diameter 3 ¼". [hide]

John Deacons and William Manson 2015 collaborative, L.H. Selman exclusive, Christmas cactus paperweight. A single pink bloom, three red berry clusters and two pinecones, share a forking Christmas cactus stem with jagged green leaves, over white upset muslin. Six and one facets as well as two rows of small oval facets. Limited edition of 12."JD" and "WM" signature canes. Design may slightly vary. Diameter 3 1/4". [hide]

John Deacons 2014 close packed millefiori magnum paperweight. A colorful assortment of complex millefiori canes, including different colored stardust canes, Clichy-type rose canes, fortress canes, shamrock canes, silhouette canes, thistle canes and others, rest upon translucent cobalt blue ground. Signature/date cane. Diameter 3 13/16". [hide]

John Deacons 2017 patterned millefiori crown faceted paperweight. A central Clichy-type rose is encircled by a ring of complex blue millefiori, which is then surrounded by a ring of five spaced roses, each encircled by a ring of pink and green complex millefiori, all resting on a bed of light green upset muslin. The design is encased within a partial crown of vertical yellow-striped blue and pink-striped green twists, alternating with white double latticinio twists. Top facet. Signature/date cane. Diameter 3 1/8”. [hide]

John Deacons close packed millefiori purple flash overlay faceted paperweight. A close packed millefiori cushion, including Clichy-type roses, pansies, silhouette canes and a butterfly, is garlanded by a white twist torsade and sits within a purple flash overlay. Clear, star-cut ground. Notched top facet, eight round side facets and sixteen vertical flutes. Signature cane. Diameter 3 3/8”. [hide]

John Deacons 2015 large spaced rose florets on pink carpet ground paperweight. A central orange and white Clichy-type rose is ringed is the focus of a ring of six spaced Clichy-type roses of different colors, each encircled by a ring of either purple or green millefiori, pressed into a pink cog cane carpet ground. Signature cane. Diameter 3 3/16". [hide]

John Deacons 2014 thirty-two stave crown magnum paperweight. A large blue, pink and white stardust cane sits at the apex of sixteen ribbon twists, in green-striped blue and yellow-striped pink, that alternate with sixteen white double latticinio twists and cascade outward around a clear interior to form a hypnotic crown made of thirty-two staves. Signature/date cane. Diameter 3 1/2". [hide]

John Deacons pink rose in double encased blue-over-white overlay paperweight. A many-tiered pink rose, its petals still cupped into a lush ball, is haloed by five irregularly spaced green leaves and sits atop a short dark stem shared by two more leaves and a companion bud. Clear-encased blue-over-white faceted overlay. Diameter 2 9/16". [hide]

John Deacons 2017 "Sergeant Stripe" tri-colored crown paperweight. A blue, pink and white complex star cane sits at the apex of nine pairs of ribbon twists that alternate between pink-striped purple, yellow-striped blue and green-striped blue. The ribbons, each spaced by a white double latticinio twist, cascade outward around a clear interior to form a regal crown. Signature/date cane. Diameter 3 1/16". [hide]

John Deacons 2017 marbrie and rose cane in matching color paperweight. Color varies from pistachio and blue or purple to red and blue over white ground with matching colored rose cane a the apex. Quadrants of fanning color ribbons radiate from central rose cane on the surface of an opaque white ground. [hide]

John Deacons (2017) white pompom in basket paperweight. A fluffy white pompom flower blooms at the end of a short green stem with a pair of green leaves and is crowned by four more green leaves, inside a crown-style basket of pink and white latticinio staves. Signature cane. Diameter 3 1/8”. [hide]

John Deacons 2014 close packed millefiori cross paperweight. Four triangular panels of colorful and varied millefiori canes, including stardust canes, thistle canes, silhouette canes of a deer, rooster and a bird, Clichy-type rose canes and others, are defined by two intersecting rows of white stardust canes bordered on each side by red and white twist segments, with a white star cluster cane at the nexus, over a translucent cobalt blue ground. Signature/date cane. Diameter 3 5/8". [hide]

John Deacons 2017 lampwork butterfly trio on upset muslin paperweight. Three lampwork butterflies, one blue-spotted yellow, one yellow-spotted blue and one red-spotted pink, each with red aventurine bodies, are arranged in a ring and alternate with complex heart canes. The butterflies surround two concentric rings of green, pink and purple stardust, which encircle a central complex heart cane. Light purple upset muslin ground. Signature/date cane. Diameter 3 1/16". [hide]

John Deacons 2017 nosegay paperweight. Three complex millefiori buds are crowned by a pyramid of green leaves and float atop a cushion of pink upset muslin. Diameter 3". [hide]

John Deacons (2016) close packed millefiori paperweight. A variety of complex cog and ruffle canes, including thistle picture canes, are packed into a colorful carpet covering a translucent encased cushion. Diameter 2 7/8". [hide]

John Deacons (2016) swirl and central millefiori doorknob. A swirl of blue, pink and purple ribbons radiates from a central pink, blue and white complex millefiori and converges at the base of the knob, to present a hypnotic invitation to enter. Brass stem and base. Diameter 2 5/16". [hide]

John Deacons (2016) Clichy-type roses on upset muslin miniature paperweight. A colorful selection of Clichy-type roses, including pink, purple, orange, blue and green, rests atop an upset muslin ground. Signature cane. Diameter 1 11/16”. [hide]

John Deacons (2016) close packed millefiori paperweight. A variety of complex cog and ruffle canes, including Clichy-style roses, a tiny stag silhouette cane and a thistle picture cane, are packed into a colorful carpet covering a translucent encased cushion. Diameter 2 3/8". [hide]

John Deacons (2016) close packed complex millefiori miniature paperweight. A variety of complex canes, including thistle and bird picture canes, a butterfly cane and a Clichy-style rose, create a colorful carpet covering a bed of white upset muslin. Signature cane. Diameter 1 9/16”. [hide]

John Deacons (2016) red concentric millefiori paperweight. A central purple thistle picture cane is encircled by four rings of blue and green cog and cross canes, on a translucent red ground. Diameter 2 1/2”. [hide]