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Primary Description:
Colorless and opaque red non-lead (?) glasses; enclosing polychrome millefiori canes and sulphide; fused murrine; encased sulphide; furnace-worked; cut. Domed, circular shape; cut circular facet on top; five cut circular facets, alternating with cut, rounded grooves on sides; enclosing sulphide portrait of Queen Victoria, facing left, encircled by a ring of millefiori canes; on a raspberry red ground; polished, concave base.
Exhibitions (4)

Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2006-11-16 through 2007-03-18
West Bridge Exhibit


Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass
Venue(s)
Yokohama Museum of Art 1992-10-12 through 1992-12-13

Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1978-04-26 through 1978-10-21
Publications (10)
La Cristallerie de Clichy: une prestigieuse manufacture du XIXe siecle (2005)
illustrated, p. 396;
BIB# 88630
The Corning Museum of Glass, A Guide to the Collections (2001) (2001)
illustrated, p. 133;
BIB# 68214
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass: Checklist of the Exhibition (1999)
illustrated, p. 44;
BIB# 63967
The Corning Museum of Glass and the Finger Lakes Region (1993)
illustrated, cover, p. 45, top right;
BIB# 35681