In the centre of this small millefiori weight - most likely produced in Thuringia - is a fortress cane surrounded by 13 similar, but smaller versions - in strong yellowish/orange and red colouring. The other 3 types of canes have the typical 5-lobed design found in German weights. The canes are set ..
Attributed to the group of very early millefiori weights from an as yet unidentified glassworks (see “Classic Paperweights from Silesia/Bohemia” by Peter von Brackel, Chapter 3, Page 31). Presumed to have been made in the early 1840s in Silesia or possibly in the workshop of Dr. Wilhelm Fuss in Mage..
A ruby-stained souvenir weight attributed to the Teplitz glassworks in Bohemia with an engraving of the “Greek Chapel” in Wiesbaden, Germany. The “chapel” is, in fact, a Russian Orthodox Church built by the Duke of Nassau in memory of his young bride, Elizabeth (a niece of the Tsar, Nikolaus I), w..