Plate
Designer: Frederick Carder (American, 1863-1963)
Manufacturer: Steuben Glass Works (American, 1903-1932)
Date: 1905-1910
Dimensions:
Rim Diam: 8 3/8 in. (21.2 cm)
Medium: Millefiori glass.
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Will F. Broer
Object number: 1949.25
DescriptionPlate composed of two types of hexagonal millefiori canes, one a light yellow octagon surrounded by colorless glass, the other a colorless glass Maltese cross surrounded by a casing of amethyst and a casing of light blue glass. The slices of cane were assembled in a shallow ceramic-like mold and heated until they fused. Applied rim of gold-ruby glass. The bottom of the plate was ground and polished. The upper surface was not ground and polished and is irregular from the uneven thicknesses of the canes.
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