paperweight

Object NamePaperweight with Millefiori Mushroom

Factory Cristalleries de Baccarat

Made FromLead Glass

Date1845-1855

Techniquepaperweight, millefiori

SizeOverall H: 4.6 cm, Diam: 7.7 cm

Accession Number83.3.143

Credit LineBequest of Clara S. Peck

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

Place Made

France, Baccarat

Physical DescriptionColorless, polychrome lead glass; paperweight, millefiori. Domed, circular form, enclosing a mushroom made of concentric rings of matching millefiori canes: a central red swirl, blue swirl and greenish star cane, encircled by a ring of red and white stars with blue centers, a ring of white stardust and green swirl canes, a ring of canes matching the central cane, and an outer ring of blue, white, and red canes, with one cane inscribed "SL/1848" inserted; encircled by a double-series opaque white twist torsade at the base; polished pontil mark; paper label inscribed "132." in ink.
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