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Object NamePaperweight

Factoryprobably Cristallerie de Clichy

Made FromLead Glass

Dateabout 1845-1855

TechniquePaperweight, millefiori

SizeOverall H: 5 cm, Diam: 8.3 cm

Accession Number56.3.110

Credit LineGift of the Honorable and Mrs. Amory Houghton

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

Exhibitions

Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows

Place Made

probably France, Clichy-la-Garenne

Physical DescriptionPaperweight. Colorless, blue, pink, white, green lead glass; paperweight, millefiori. Domed, circular form, enclosing a six-loop garland of alternating pink and white millefiori canes, with green-and- pink canes within the loops, blue, pink and white canes outside, and with a white, green and red cane at the center; on a brilliant blue ground with white inner lining; polished concave base.
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