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This page shows post-classic weights produced mainly in glassworks in Silesia & Thuringia.
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Reference: GER 01705
A miniature weight, attributed to a Silesian glassworks, with a 2-tier basket (white latticinio threads around yellow filigree) supporting 2 rows of millefiori canes around a white/aquamarine “flower-like” centre cane, with a yellow/pale-orange cruciform “pistil”. The overall tonality - pale-orange..
£215.00
Reference: GER 03411
A 3-ring concentric set on a well-made, 3-tiered white latticinio basket. The alternating millefiori canes in the outer ring (blue & yellow - with hints of ruby-red) contain the typical 5-lobed stars so often found in these post-classic German weights. Pale-amber is the dominant colour towards the c..
£140.00
Reference: GER 01445
A spiralling, 3 tiered yellow basket provides the ground for 2 rows of neatly set complex millefiori canes - mainly in shades of pale orange and white with just a hint of yellow - surrounding a central 5-lobed red, white and blue cane. The yellow spiralling basket and well-made canes would indicate ..
£225.00
Reference: GER 01413
A post-classical Silesian weight with complex millefiori canes arranged on a double-tiered white latticinio basket. Complex white & florets in corrugated tubes, encircled by 8 slightly smaller versions of the same cane; 4 blue & yellow rods within a white & pink collar, plus identical canes forming ..
£195.00
Reference: GER 00680
A low-domed weight with an intricate ruby, white and blue composite centre cane and 2 rows of millefiori set on a double latticinio swirl. Probably of Silesian origin and made in the post-classic period after 1880.The base is flat and lightly ground.
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£190.00
Reference: GER 01282
A good example of a well set up German weight - probably Thuringia - with 5 different types of complex canes tightly packed in a 2 rings - with alternating canes - around a large orange/yellow complex centre cane, which is repeated in the outer row. The ground is a mixture of partial canes and spatt..
£255.00
Reference: GER 01281
A most attractive closely-packed miniature weight with 2 evenly-set rings of alternating pink, white, blue, aquamarine and yellow canes - around a large white, pink and blue centre cane.Set above a polychrome spatter ground, the weight has a small flat, lightly-ground base.
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£215.00
Reference: GER K249
An excellent example of a post-classic millefiori weight set on a blue & green-striped, white cushion wrapped in fine yellow filigree threads. A complex red & white 5-lobed star cane at the centre of 9 smaller verison of the same cane, is surrounded by a row of 8 large, alternating complex canes - e..
£335.00
Reference: GER 01243
A post-classic millefiori weight with sparkling mica flakes forming a cushion in the clear glass. 2 rows of millefiori canes surround a 12-toothed white cog cane lined with blue and filled with a red star on white. The canes in the outer row - 5-lobed blue and white stars and white cogs with blue st..
£190.00
Reference: GER 01011
A small, 2-row concentric - probably from Thuringia - set around a corrugated turquoise cane with a 5-lobed, red-and-white star centre. In the first row are 6 alternating canes; the outer row has 12. One large, white-rod cane in the outer row has slipped forwards slightly - spoiling the otherwise ev..
£190.00
Reference: GER 03988
3 different millefiori canes - set on a mainly blue & white spatter base - make up this medium-size 2-row concentric, attributed to a Thuringian glassworks. At the centre is a white cog surrounded by complex 5-lobed pink/green canes. The outer row is composed of pink/yellow canes centred by pale-blu..
£110.00
Reference: GER 03027
5-lobed stars feature in the majority of canes in this close concentric - centring rings of fine rods (the blue & red canes); and at the centre of the green & white corrugated canes. The exceptions are the 6 pink/white candy-striped double-tube canes around the perimeter. The millefiori canes are se..
£150.00