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Glossary of Paperweight Terms
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Paddle   See block
 
Panel weight Perthshire
 
A paperweight in which clusters of canes form alternating sections separated either by exposed sections of the weight's ground, filigree twist, canes, or rods.
 
Paperweight Baccarat
 
A glass sphere or plaque enclosing decorative elements such as millefiori canes, lampwork motifs of colored glass, sulphide portraits, or metalic motifs.
 
Pastry mold Bacchus
 
A millefiori cane that flares or "skirts" out at its basal end.
Patterned millefiori Saint Louis
 
Any spacing scheme in millefiori weights with ordered groupings of florets forming a design.
Pedestal weight
 
  See footed weight
Pell-mell   See scrambled
 
Penholder (or shot glass)   A paperweight-based, short flanged vase, originally filled with shot to hold quill pens.
 
Piedouche Parabelle
 
French term for footed weight.
Pincers   A tong-like instrument used to hold, place and shape molten glass.
 
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Glossary text from The Art of the Paperweight used courtesy of L. H. Selman Ltd.

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