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Object NameCircular Cane Slice

Maker Pietro Bigaglia (Italian, 1786-1876)

Made FromNon-lead glass

Date1846-1847

Place MadeItaly

Accession Number59.3.32-6

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

Not On View

Physical DescriptionColorless, polychrome non-lead glasses; millefiori, sliced. Thin slice of millefiori cane, in geometric designs, portraits, dates and inscriptions: circular shape; two white birds, each within blue circular fields, within a larger colorless field, encircled by a white ring; six circular panels, each enclosing a star-shaped device of blue and yellow oval target canes around a blue disk, within a colorless matrix, arranged in a ring around the central panel, within a blue matrix; encircled by a colorless band.
Provenance

Source Thomas S. Buechner (American, 1926-2010) - 1959