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Object Name5 Millefiori Canes

Maker Cristalleries de Baccarat

Made FromLead (?) glass

Date1983

TechniquePressed, overlay, cut

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

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Designs in Miniature: The Story of Mosaic Glass

Place Made

France

Physical DescriptionLead (?) glass; pressed, encased; (A) black glass; pressed. Thick, flat shape, silhouette of a striding rooster, with arching tail feathers and erect head; one side rough ground, the remainder rippled. (B) Black, opaque white, and transparent dark blue glass; overlay. hick, flat, cylindrical shape, silhouette of a black rooster, coated with opaque white, and ringed by a scalloped blue band, with the figure running throughout; both faces polished. (C) Black, opaque white, and transparent dark blue glass. Long, cylindrical rod, enclosing the silhouette of a black rooster, encased in opaque white, and clad with a scalloped blue coating; both ends polished. (D) Black, white, blue, red, and colorless glass. Bundle of long, cylindrical rods; a ring of 15 red, white and colorless "tubes" encircling a large rod enclosing a black rooster silhouette in opaque white, with a scalloped blue border; bound in two places with brass wire; ends of the red rods cleanly sheared, faces of the inner rod polished. (E) Pink, white, black, blue, and colorless glass. Long, thin, rod; enclosing 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.
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