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Object NameOval Cane Slice
Maker
Pietro Bigaglia
(Italian, 1786-1876)
Made FromNon-lead glass
Date1846-1847
Place MadeItaly
Accession Number59.3.32-19
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: oval shape; central opaque white oval with black date "1847"/encircled by a green ring/encircled by eighteen complex star cane, with central white stars alternately blue or red rimmed, encircled by rings of microscopic white stars, within a colorless matrix.Provenance
Source
Thomas S. Buechner
(American, 1926-2010) - 1959
