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Object NameTazza
Maker Cristallerie de Clichy
Made FromLead Glass
Date1845-1855
Place MadeFrance, Clichy-la-Garenne
TechniqueBlown, millefiori
SizeOverall H: 8.6 cm; Rim Diam: 11 cm
Accession Number78.3.5
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Museum Endowment Fund
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows
On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery
Physical DescriptionColorless, polychrome lead glass; blown, millefiori. Shallow, circular bowl with curved sides, trailed green and white twisted ribbon on the rim; colorful millefiori canes in the bowl, arranged in a pattern of three concentric rings around a white "Clichy" rose, and six C-loops; stem with central ball knop; disk foot with trailed green and white twisted ribbon on the foot rim; polished pontil mark.
Provenance
Source Alan Tillman Ltd. - 1978-03-02
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