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Lot 93

A small Franchini millefiori plaque, dated 1846

29 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A small Franchini millefiori plaque, dated 1846

Rectangular with bevelled edges, the central silhouette cane of a gondola surrounded by six assorted canes on a scrambled ground, the underside with the date cane '1846' above the signature cane 'FC', 4.7cm wide

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Provenance
Sotheby's sale, 2 July 1979, lot 181

Illustrated in the Bulletin of the Paperweight Collectors' Association (June 1956), and by Evelyn Campbell Cloak, Glass Paperweights (1969), pl.38, no.399. A very similar plaque with an 'FC' cane is illustrated by Gerd Mattes in Pressglas-Korrespondenz 2018-1 (December 2018), figs.63-09 and 63-10. Compare to the plaque mounted as a paperweight in the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass with a 'GBF' cane (accession no. PW 1958.381.379) illustrated by Campbell Cloak (1966), pp.110-2, pl.38, no.399 and by Geraldine Casper, Glass Paperweights of the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum (1989), p.26, no.379.

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