Paul Ysart (1904-1992)

    Paul Ysart was born into a family of glassworkers in Barcelona, Spain. The family emigrated first to France and, in 1915, to Scotland, the father always employed in glass work. Paul and his three brothers were apprenticed in that field and, along with their father joined the Moncrief Glass Works in Perth, Scotland in 1922. It was here, with the help of his father, that Paul started to make paperweights.
     Paul Ysart worked in a glass factory where he used a pot of hot glass. He made both lampwork and millefiori paperweights. His designs include flowers, bouquets, insects, birds, smakes and fish - many with a millefiori garland on an intensely colored ground, others in a light colored latticinio basket or on an upset muslin ground. Some of his weights were three dimensional. He even made a few sulphide designs. Ysart weights were sometimes signed with a PY cane, but many were not signed at all. Their distinctive style and careful craftsman ship is sufficient to tell when a weight is an Ysart.
     Two Ysart weights appeared in the first edition of Evangeline Bergstrom’s Book Old Glass Paperweights and were eliminated from later versions when she discovered they had been made in the 20th century. Mrs. Bergstrom was noted for her good judgment about paperweights and it is a compliment to Ysart that she thought the weights were French antiques of quality.
 

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