White Shard Roses

Encircling the centre cane in this 3-row close concentric are 7 white shard roses with ruby sepals. The roses have complex centres - 8 tiny pink stars around pale-yellow concentric tubes - similar to the pale-yellow tubes surrounding the white/green stars in the centre cane. The white/green stars appear again at the centre of the complex pink canes in the outer row. Probably an early weight as the canes are placed high in the dome but they are good examples of the complex millefiori canes St Mandé produced, before it went out of business in the mid-1850s.
Polished, concave base with wear rim.