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Lot 92

A Franchini millefiori cane handle, dated 1845

29 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,657.50 inc. premium

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A Franchini millefiori cane handle, dated 1845

Of faceted hexagonal form set with an assortment of brightly coloured composite canes and murrine on a scrambled ground, including a distinctive murrina of a crescent-shaped 'man in the moon' within a border of stars, a pink rose on a leafy stem, a pink 'Clichy' style rose, the date cane '1845' and the signature cane 'F', mounted with a yellow metal collar, 4.9cm high

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Provenance
Sotheby's sale, 2 July 1979, lot 183a

The 'man in the moon' murrina is an example of a cane produced by Giacomo Franchini. The pink rose murrina, usually attributed to his father Giovanni, is thought to have been the inspiration for the Clichy model, see Paul Dunlop, The Dictionary of Glass Paperweights (2009), pp.144-6.

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