Topic: Any information on this 'French millefiori' paperweight, please?

[johnfandmaryp]

Thank you very much for the additional information Alexander.
Cheers, John.

[KevinH]

I agree with Kevin that the canes look Scottish.  However the arrangement of the canes is not typical for a Scottish weight.

I agree with the second statement, but I never said I thought the canes were Scottish. I said " ... If those canes are Scottish ...". Perhaps I should have said what I really think ... I do not believe they are Scottish canes ... and the base is not finished in a Scottish manner. But I will keep an open mind on it.

The one Alexander has just bought is clearly from the same maker. I wonder if we will begin to see more of these?

[Leni]

Hmmm.  I also only said that "at first glance I would have thought it looked Scottish".  The pale pink and green colour was what first made me think it might be.  I can see that the construction of the canes has a similarity to some Murano canes, and the slightly untidy set-up is similar to some Murano weights, but I don't generally associate pale pink with Murano!   

Also, the weight John posted was shown on the ebay auction to have a very low profile - I thought it looked almost as if it had been ground right down to remove damage, or as if it was unfinished - a paperweight 'button' that had not had a final encasement!

I can see that Alexander's has the same or very similar canes, and I look forward to seeing more pics of that one, please!   

[alexander]

You will as soon as I get it 

A strange fruit this as there are elements of clichy in the canes, but the overall cane design looks scottish to me too,
Perthshire is what I'm thinking. I don't think it is tho.

The pics don't show the dome or base very well ( high or low dome, concave bottom or not ) but one
intriguing thing is the setting of the canes themselves, they appear well centered and not filling out the glass.

On some murano weights this happens, a lot of the ones I've seen tho they tend to fill every inch of glass with canes.

Looking forward to seeing it

[alexander]

Finally found one of these with a label - appears to be our muranese friends Fratelli Toso 

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[johnfandmaryp]

Very interesting Alexander ~ many thanks again, John.