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Object NameCircular Cane Slice
Maker
Pietro Bigaglia
(Italian, 1786-1876)
Made FromNon-lead glass
Date1846-1847
Place MadeItaly
Accession Number59.3.32-10
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionColorless, polychrome non-lead glasses; millefiori, sliced. Thin slice of millefiori cane, in geometric designs, portraits, dates and inscriptions: circular shape; colorless disk with red rim at center, encircled by tiny white rods; six disks around that, in pairs, including green-and-white six-lobed "flowers"; and green-and-white quatrefoils within a red-lined circlet of white rods; within a colorless matrix.Provenance
Source
Thomas S. Buechner
(American, 1926-2010) - 1959
