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Object Name2 Paperweights
Factory George Bacchus & Sons
Made FromLead Glass
Dateabout 1850-1880
Place MadeEngland
SizeSee Individual Records
Accession Number83.2.17
Credit LineBequest of Clara S. Peck
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionColorless, red, white, blue lead glass; paperweight, millefiori, cut. Oval ball, containing millefiori canes, with a red, white and blue cane at center, surrounded by two rings of lacy white and blue canes, and an outer ring of pink, blue and white canes, encircled by a twisted red and white tape torsade; mounted on a panel-cut stem composed of a true baluster above an inverted baluster, with an air bubble in the center, on a drawn, panel-cut, elaborately ogee-cut foot; star-cut base.
Provenance
Source Clara S. Peck (d. 1983) - 1954-12-14-1983-05-20
Former Collection C. W. Lyon Inc. - 1954-12-14
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