9-cane Chequer

A gold aventurine grid divides the translucent pale-amethyst ground into 9 squares each containing a complex millefiori cane. An emerald-green shamrock silhouette in a white cog dominates the centre, while the white cogs in the corners are centred by 2 bright-red heart silhouettes, a pale-blue heart and one in burgundy. The other 4 miniature canes - ruby & white and green & white cogs - are filled with tiny pink, white & green tubes, stars and crimps.
Signed with a gld foil “K” on the underside of the colour ground. Polished, concave base.
(This weight is illustrated on page 105 (Fig MI 61) in Bernard Drabeck’s book about Charles Kaziun Jr.: “Magic in the Glass”).