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Object NameCircular Dome with Millefiori Flower Cane and 13 Cut Millefiori Flower Cane Segm

Artist Kyoyu Asao (Japanese, about 1918-1984)

Made FromGlass

Dateabout 1978-1985

TechniqueFlameworked

SizeCircular Dome H: 0.5 cm, Diam (max): 1.7 cm; Largest Cane Segment H: 0.2 cm, Diam (max): 0.7 cm

Accession Number2014.6.17

Credit LineGift of Robert K. Liu/Ornament Magazine

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Place Made

Japan, Osaka

Physical DescriptionCircular Dome with Millefiori Flower Cane and 13 Cut Millefiori Flower Cane Segments. Opaque white, multicolored, and colorless glasses, paper, pencil; flameworked, marvered, affixed. Piece of paper with Japanese characters handwritten in pencil and the number "117". Adhered (with square piece of adhesive) to paper is a flameworked circular dome of white glass with a multicolored millefiori flower cane marvered into the center of its top surface. In addition to this, there are 13 cut millefiori flower cane segments resembling the one that is marvered into the white glass. The center of each millefiori flower cane segment consists of colorless glass with a ring of red around the center and bands of multicolored glass radiating out from the center.
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