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The burgundy-on-white double overlay is cut with a hexagonal top window and elongated side facets to reveal a domed 8-row concentric millefiori mushroom. Encircling a white, pink & green centre floret are complex canes, rods and crimps in shades of mustard-yellow, pale-lilac, salmon-pink, lemon, dar..

A stunning paperweight in a most unsual colour combination. The scalloped concave top window and 6 elongated side facets on a pumpkin-on-white double overlay reveal a concentric millefiori mushroom. Encircling the red/white/pink centre cluster are 7 rings of complex canes in shades of raspberry-pink..

First introduced in 1958, millefiori Zodiac closepacks were produced for many years. This is an early example with the 12 signs of the zodiac scattered around the canopy of colourful complex canes, which are perhaps less vibrant than those used in later years. Signed with a “B” cane next to a 1970 d..

With the revival of paperweight production in the 1950s, Baccarat initially concentrated on perfecting millefiori designs and only later added lampwork to their range. This is a relatively early example displaying 3 pinkish-mauve fantasy flowers, each with 5 ribbed petals around a white millefiori c..

The predominant colours in this 9-row close concentric are yellow, cobalt-blue & white in the centre. Other colours include pink, white & pale blue. Of the 9 rows, 3 consist of hollow latticinio canes with a pinkish/red rod in the centre.  The final row of complex canes - pale-blue & white enclosing..

A carpet ground of unusually-coloured complex millefiori canes: rich burgundy, pinkish-red and yellowish-brown. Randomly scattered across the canopy of canes in this paperweight are 11 small black & white signs of the zodiac - each one at the centre of a millefiori cane. There should be 12 - but one..

A scalloped, concave top window, narrow notch cuts and 6 round side facets in the burgundy-on-white double overlay expose a 7-row concentric mushroom. Cane colours include mustard-yellow, white, red, pale-blue, mid-blue and russet. An outer row of complex yellow canes tapers to the clear base and fo..

An early 8-row concentric design with the outer rows well spaced out from the more compact centre.  The colour palette of the complex millefiori canes - pinks, yellows, orange, dark- & lime-green - contrasts with the row of simple white & turquoise canes. A 1969 date cane is set in the penultimate r..

An 8-row millefiori concentric with 2 rows of hollow canes. The colours of the millefiori canes - including stars and cogs set around a complex centre cluster - are wide-ranging - from burgundy, dark-green & pale-blue to red, pink, pale-yellow & white. Incorporated in the row of pink & white stars i..

Complex millefiori canes with blue stars around an amber/yellow rod with a black star centre, form a perfect carpet-ground for the 12 signs of the Zodiac randomly scattered across it. Each one is surrounded by a ring of millefiori canes in different colours. The 13th cane - at 6 o’clock in the pictu..

A large weight with the 12 signs of the zodiac - each one surrounded by a circle of millefiori canes in different colours - randomly scattered across a carpet-ground of complex yellow & green millefiori canes. Dated on a single cane in black numerals on white: 1969 (at 6 o’clock in the first picture..

A (slightly off-centre) light & dark-blue complex cane is encircled by a garland of 10 canes and a spaced ring of 6 millefiori circlets - in blue, raspberry-pink and pale-green - on an extremely fine layer of upset white muslin. Each of the millefiori circlets is centred by a large complex cane. Set..