paperweight

Object NamePaperweight with Millefiori Basket or Mushroom

Factory Cristallerie de Clichy

Made FromLead Glass

Date1845-1855

Techniquepaperweight, millefiori

SizeOverall H: 5.6 cm, Diam: 7.2 cm

Accession Number83.3.173

Credit LineBequest of Clara S. Peck

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

Exhibitions

Roses in Glass

Place Made

France, Clichy-la-Garenne

Physical DescriptionPaperweight with Millefiori Basket or Mushroom. Colorless, opaque white, polychrome lead glass; paperweight, millefiori. Domed, circular form, enclosing a white-staved basket of millefiori canes arranged in concentric rings, with a pink and green "rose" at the center, encircled by purple canes, green "moss" canes, pink canes, blue canes alternating with white canes, and an outer ring of green canes; polished pontil mark; paper label inscribed "159" in ink.
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