A mystery weight of unknown origin in fine heavy crystal. The whole and partial millefiori canes indicate the work of a skilled glassmaker. The colour palette is bright: candy-pink, lime-green, peach, yellow, blue and white with a sprinkling of copper aventurine. A centre bubble rises “on a stalk”; ..
A inkwell with an onion-spire stopper - and signed with a PY cane (clearly visible in the second image). The complex millefiori canes in the base are closely-packed within a double garland. The inner ring has spaced canes; the outer ring is a continuous garland with 2 green/white cogs alternating w..
Set on a thin, opaque mid-blue ground are what appear to be a mixture of early Paul and Salvador Ysart canes. So who made it? Opinions differ! Was it a trial to test compatibility. Whoever made it, the weight is an interesting cane study...especially the butterfly cane at 3 o’clock which is often at..
A rare early 1950s closepack. Due to the different height of the canes the surface is uneven and a small “dimple” on top of the dome spoils the profile. Maybe it doesn’t have the brilliance of 19th century weights, or the perfection of post-1970 weights, but this is probably one of the first 20th Ce..