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Object NamePaperweight

Factory Compagnie des Verreries et Cristalleries de Baccarat

Made FromGlass

Dateabout 1845-1855

Techniquecut, millefiori, cased, polished

SizeOverall H: 5.8 cm, Diam: 8.2 cm

Accession Number72.3.163

Credit LineGift of Lucy Smith Battson

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

Place Made

France, Baccarat

Physical DescriptionPaperweight. Colorless and transparent red glasses; enclosing polychrome millefiori canes; cut. Domed, circular shape; cased red glass over colorless; with seven cut circular facets, rounded flutes at base; enclosing interlaced trefoils of millefiori canes: green, red and white stars, and yellow, red and white canes, each lobe containing, alternately, pale blue rimmed or yellow rimmed ribbed canes containing black silhouettes of goats and deer, against a white background; circle of white and green canes around a single red, white, blue and green cane, at center; polished, concave base.
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