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Object NameCane Slice
Maker
Pietro Bigaglia
(Italian, 1786-1876)
Made FromNon-lead glass
Date1846-1847
Place MadeItaly
Accession Number59.3.32-13
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; tiny red, white, and blue target cane at the center/four lavender and white triangular canes, forming a quatrefoil pattern, with four dark blue devices filling in the spaces between/five lavender bell-shaped devices, within a white matrix/ringed by a row of white tubes in a yellow- orange matrix.Provenance
Source
Thomas S. Buechner
(American, 1926-2010) - 1959
