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Object Name: 
Button
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Canada, Ontario
Accession Number: 
87.4.31
Dimensions: 
H; 1.7 cm, D: 2 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1987
Credit Line: 
Gift of John E. Gooderham
Primary Description: 
Button. Colorless, white, blue non-lead glass, metal; fused murrine; furnace-worked; double-cased overlay; cut. Domed circular shape, with pale lavender and white double overlay, with cut circular window on top, and five oval windows alternating with narrow oval cuts on the sides; enclosing millefiori canes, with a purple- and -white "J" signature cane in the center, encircled by six millefiori canes, a ring of gold aventurine, and an outer ring of millefiori canes; pontil (?) scar on back, with brass wire loop in the center.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Gooderham, John E. (Canadian, 1930-2007), Source
Color: 
Colorless, white, blue
colorless
white
Technique: 
lampworked, millefiori, cut
millefiori glass

Exhibitions (1)

Worlds Within: The Evolution of the Paperweight
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2006-11-16 through 2007-03-18
West Bridge Exhibit