Millefiori paperweight

Millefiori, which translates from the Italian as "a thousand flowers" is a method of decorating glass with slices of coloured canes in flower design, embedded in clear molten glass. The technique was known as far back as the first century BC and was revived and modified in Venice in the 16th century. The process was used to make paperweights in Venice and Bohemia in the 19th century, and the technique spread to France, England and the United States.

Paperweights, used to hold down papers, and most commonly made in glass, evolved in Venice in the early nineteenth century, and spread to France via Bohemia about 1845, where the finest examples were produced by three factories: Baccarat, Clichy and St Louis. Examples from these manufacturers are mostly unmarked and widely faked and imitated and thus a minefield for the uninitiated. The most popular motif is millefiori ('thousand flowers'), though fruit, single flowers, insects, and other small objects are often used as well as portraits and view. The cheaper paperweights use air bubbles as decoration. The classic paperweights are round more...

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Two Clichy millefiore miniature paperweights, circa 1850, one…

Clichy Millefiore Miniature Paperweights, 1850

Two Clichy millefiore miniature paperweights, circa 1850, one with a central white floret and eight encircling canes including a distinctive Clichy rose, the other with concentric wreath form florets in green and aubergine encircling a central pale pink…

French Clichy Faceted millefiori Glass Paperweight, c. 1850,…

French Millefiori Glass Paperweight, 1850

French Clichy Faceted millefiori Glass Paperweight, c. 1850, the central pink and green rose cane encircled by a concentric ring of white and blue canes, and bordered by a garland of red cog canes, alternating with pairs of white and red canes, on clear…

French Baccarat paperweight, animal silhouette canes on…

1848 French Baccarat Animal Silhouette Paperweight

French Baccarat paperweight, animal silhouette canes on latticino muslin ground, signed and dated 1848 (bruises)

A large white Friar's inkwell paperweight. millefiori…

Millefiori Friar's Inkwell Paperweight

A large white Friar's inkwell paperweight. millefiori decoration to inkwell and stopper. Height 18 cm

Paperweight, St Louis close compact millefiori

Compact Millefiori Paperweight by St. Louis

Paperweight, St Louis close compact millefiori

An attributed Clichy glass paperweight, milk glass carpet set…

Clichy Glass Paperweight with Millefiore Border and Arches

An attributed Clichy glass paperweight, milk glass carpet set with a border of Millefiore framing five arches of Millefiore canes, c.1850. Diameter 8.7 cm

Baccarat French millefiori glass paperweight, 20th century,…

Baccarat Millefiori Glass Paperweight with Acid Etched Mark

Baccarat French millefiori glass paperweight, 20th century, acid etched factory mark. 5 cm high, 8 cm diameter

A miniature French millefiori paperweight, by Baccarat, dated…

Baccarat Millefiori Paperweight, 1847

A miniature French millefiori paperweight, by Baccarat, dated 1847, featuring a close packed assortment of complex millefiori amoung picture canes and gridel silhouette canes. Signature and date cane 'B/ 1847', 3.5 cm high, approximately 6 cm diameter

An unusual cut glass millefiori paperweight, Italian, mid 19th…

Italian Millefiori Cut Glass Paperweight, 19th Century

An unusual cut glass millefiori paperweight, Italian, mid 19th century, 17 cm high, 11 cm diameter

Baccarat 19th century. Paperweight, dated 1848 spaced canes on…

Baccarat 19th century. Paperweight, dated 1848 spaced canes on upset muslin ground, signed and dated

Baccarat Scrambled pattern paperweight, 19th, circa French…

Baccarat Scrambled pattern paperweight, 19th, circa French Baccarat paperweight 'End of day Scramble' a bed of upset Latticinio Muslin and colourful twisted tubes, circa 1850

An antique Clichy scattered millefiori paperweight, the…

Clichy Millefiori Paperweight with Rare Purple Rose

An antique Clichy scattered millefiori paperweight, the scattered millefiori on an opaque turquoise ground with a large central classic Clichy rose cane surrounded by an assortment of pretty pastry mould and cog canes, three additional rose canes in white…