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Object Type
Museum number: S.803
Description: Ball, millefiori glass; canes of blue, red, green, purple and white embedded in background of pale, semi-transparent blue.
Production date: Early 16thC
Production place: Made in: Venice (city)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 2.50 centimetres
Curator's comments: There are other millefiori balls in the collection: OA 5196, WT.1153, 1154. See Baumgartner 2015 cat.44 for discussion.
Bibliographic references: Slade 1871 / Catalogue of the Collection of Glass formed by Felix Slade Esq, F S A. With Notes on the History of Glass Making by Alexander Nesbitt, Esq, F S A (p.134); Tait 1979 / The Golden Age of Venetian Glass (161); Tait 1991 / Five Thousand Years of Glass (p. 164, fig. 209); Baumgartner 2015 / Reflets de Venise (cat.44)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1868
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: S.803

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