A rare Venetian millefiori ball or sphere, 16th century or early 17th century
A rare Venetian millefiori ball or sphere, 16th century or early 17th century
The millefiori core set within clear glass and formed from an assortment of composite canes in blue, red, green, white, turquoise and yellow and with a small gold foil inclusion, the ball 3.5cm diam, pierced through the centre and mounted on a gilt metal pedestal and surmounted with a gilded figure of a Bacchic boy on a barrel, 12.9cm high overall (the glass ball fractured)
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A rare Venetian millefiori ball or sphere, 16th century or early 17th century
The millefiori core set within clear glass and formed from an assortment of composite canes in blue, red, green, white, turquoise and yellow and with a small gold foil inclusion, the ball 3.5cm diam, pierced through the centre and mounted on a gilt metal pedestal and surmounted with a gilded figure of a Bacchic boy on a barrel, 12.9cm high overall (the glass ball fractured)