"Through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures."
- Proverbs 24:4
This proverb from one of the wisdom books of the Hebrew Bible aptly describes how Eileen Ellis amassed a wonderful collection of more than 400 paperweights, from the classic period of the nineteenth century to contemporary works of present day. What began as a token of love from her husband blossomed into a passionate pursuit guided by Eileen's deep knowledge of paperweights. Once Eileen started to collect paperweights, she decided to educate herself by reading scholarly articles and attending conventions. The result of her study is indeed a room full of rare and beautiful treasures as seen in the exhibition A Symphony of Glass: Paperweights from the Ellis Collection at the Flint Institute of Arts Museum + Art School (FIA).
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