Extremely Rare All White Antique Bacchus Paperweight

Extremely Rare All White Antique Bacchus Paperweight

 

Year: 1840s

 

Dimensions: 3.0in D x 2.2in H  

 

 

 

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Item #: 1017

Bacchus

 

The Bacchus glass factory began creating millefiori paperweights in Birmingham, England in the 1840s. Relatively few Bacchus paperweights are known today. Millefiore paperweights, first manufactured in Venice, consist of sections from rods of colored glass encased in a clear, colorless sphere. By the mid-nineteenth century, glass factories elsewhere in Europe were emulating the millefiore style.