Skip to main content

cane

Object NameMillefiori Cane
Made FromLead (?) glass
Date1983
Place MadeFrance
Size(A) H: 7.3 cm, W: 8.7 cm; (B) D: 6.1 cm, L: 3.5 cm; (C) L: 13.1 cm, D: 1.8 cm; (D) L: 13.9 cm, D: 3 cm; (E) L:20.2 cm
Accession Number83.3.212 E
Credit LineGift of Cristallerie de Baccarat
Curatorial Area(s)
On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery
Physical DescriptionPink, white, black, blue, and colorless lead (?) glasses. Long, thin, rod; enclosing the black silhouette of a rooster in opaque white, within a blue scalloped border, encircled by a ring of pink and white tubular rods; both faces sheared cleanly.
Provenance
Source Compagnie des Verreries et Cristalleries de Baccarat
Matchables
Corning Inc.
Allegria (Happiness) Bottle
Vetri Decorativi Rag. Aureliano Toso Glassworks
designed in 1952
scientific instrument
Corning Inc.
probably 1970-1989
vase
Harrach Glasshouse
about 1860
fragment
25 BCE-99 CE