Topic: Old French Millefiori with Rose and hidden rose canes - ID?

[SimonD]

People interested in classic era millefiori paperweights with rose canes may be able to help me identify this paperweight. It measures 2.4 inches diameter, 1.75 inches high, and has a four row concentric design, with a large rose cane in the centre. The inner-most ring of blue canes have a hidden rose cane at its centre.

I'm a little out of touch with the contemporary thinking on such weights, but would probably opt for "St Mandé" - a completely uneducated guess. Does anyone recognise the canes / roses here, and can suggest which factory made it?

Regards
Simon

[mildawg]

Not a rose cane but more like a pompon. The weight is I believe a St Mande.  Nice find!

[SimonD]

Thanks 'mildawg' - you're quite right, it's a pompom in the middle!

[donaldf]

A very nice St Mandé weight. And I do think that the centre of the blue cane is a hidden rose. It is a pale white rose. I have a few weights with this ephemeral rose both as a single cane and as a ‘hidden rose’ as part of a complex cane