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This page shows post-classic weights produced mainly in glassworks in Silesia & Thuringia.
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A delightful, well set up miniature weight - attributed to a Silesian glassworks - with a fine central cane surrounded by 2 close concentric rows of extremely complex millefiori canes. The flower-like centre cane is composed of a flared, white 12-toothed cog cane (coated in red) with two 5-lobed ruffles inside filled with translucent ruby. The blue-coated...
Although slightly off-centre, this is an excellent example of a post-classic German weight. A well made centre cane encircled by 2 spaced rings of complex millefiori canes including green, yellow, blue & white cog canes, pink & blue composite canes surrounded by an outer row of 8 smaller canes and 7 dark-blue, white, pale-blue & yellow cogs -...
A most attractive miniature with a two-tiered white and yellow latticinio basket supporting the millefiori canes; meticulously set up and attributed to one of the Silesian glassworks. Two rings of alternating canes are set around a centre circlet. Delicately-coloured pink/white & pale-orange/white millefiori circlets and cog canes contrast with the...
This 2-ring concentric, featuring well-made millefiori canes, most likely came from one of the Silesian glassworks. Cobalt-blue, white & amber are the predominant colours in the complex millefiori canes, which float above a thin polychrome frit ground. The blue & white canes are extremely complex with eight tiny 5-lobed stars set in white around a...
A 2-row concentric with alternating canes - attributed to one of the Silesian glassworks. The well-made, complex millefiori canes are set in 2 rings around a green, white & ruby centre cane. Pink & white canes contrast with pale-amber & ruby;cobalt-blue & white with pale-blue & white. The canes are set - slightly off-centre - above a...
This attractive miniature weight was probably made in one of the Silesian glassworks. A two-tiered white latticinio basket supports the two rings of alternating millefiori canes, set around a centre circlet. Soft-hued pink/white millefiori circlets and cog canes contrast with the yellow/green 5-lobed stars and the cobalt-blue/white corrugated canes placed...
A fine, 3-row post-classic concentric - probably of Silesian origin - over a 2-tiered basket of latticinio threads. Complex millefiori canes in blue, green, yellow, white and various shades of pale orange encircle a central 8-ribbed white & orange cane, filled with a smaller, 5-ribbed cane in the same colours. Complex cog canes in the outer row...
An excellent example of a neatly-set German weight - possibly of Silesian origin - with well made complex canes on a predominantly yellow & white spatter base. Encircling the centre cluster of pink-and-white corrugated tubes are ca.25 upright yellow rods. These upright rods are repeated in the 3 canes with red & white striped collars in the first...
2 rows of complex canes encircle a royal blue/yellow/red central feature cane. The first row has 3 different types of canes; in the outer row complex white plaques alternate with red/white/blue cruciform canes surrounded by translucent pink & pale-orange rods.The 3-tiered filigree basket - white within yellow within a white outer layer; the complexity...
This rare example of a 19th Century lampwork snake is attributed to one of the glassworks in Lauscha (Thuringia). Black markings cover the yellowish-green body and head. The eyes are white & red. The tightly-coiled reptile is set over a slight depression in the polychrome ground of frit, fragments of millefiori canes and aventurine inclusions. The...
A rare example of a post-classic lampwork dragonfly (or moth) - probably from a glassworks in Thuringia. The body is dark olive-green with black markings curling around it; while the wings appear to be pink with black or dark-blue markings - it’s difficult to tell due to the strong purple (manganese) tint to the dome. The insect is fluttering over a...
Probably of Thuringian origin, this is an extremely rare example of lampwork in a post-classic paperweight. A green & black striped frog - with yellow & black eyes - is depicted leaping over a turquoise/white/ruby “ribbon” - which appears to be a cane split lengthwise. The spatter ground - over a translucent ruby cushion - includes...