Mother and Child Glass Family Desktop Paperweight by Klimt PKL2 Parastone

Glass half dome paperweight with image by artist Gustav Klimt from his famous painting, Three Ages of Women. Here we see a mother embracing a young child in an iconic image of their bond. Around her head is a pattern of flowers giving the scene a dreamy everlasting quality.

Glass paperweight comes in an elegant presentation box with sateen lining suitable as a mother's day gift or birthday gift for mothers, sisters, and a woman having a new baby at a baby shower.

• Part of the Parastone Museum Gift Collection. PN PKL2
• Measures: 3 in W x 3 in L x 1.5 in H. Weight 0.9 lbs.

Gustav Klimt was a prominent member of an innovation group of artists called Sezession and is considered to be one of the main pioneers of modern art. Apart from this, his ornamental Jugendstil style evokes and irresistible feeling which is inspired by the fin-de-siecle of 19th century Vienna: elitist, liberal-middle class, decadent, pleasantly decorative. His work is extremely recognizable due to his monumental style combined with Byzantine-like ornamental art and classical symbolism, created against the background of romanticism which was so characteristic of his time.