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Portrait Canes
Giacomo Franchini (Italian, 1827-1897) and Giovanni Battista Franchini (Italian, 1804-1873)c.1840-1870
Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass
Neenah, Wisconsin, United States
These highly detailed murrini (canes) depict a triple overlay portrait of General Garibaldi; a white overlay portrait of Victor Emanuel II; a double overlay portrait of Count di Cavour, Italian stateman (1810-1861); and a black gondola silhouette on white ground encircled by tiny red, white and blue stars.
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- Title: Portrait Canes
- Creator: Giacomo Franchini (Italian, 1827-1897), Giovanni Battista Franchini (Italian, 1804-1873)
- Date: c.1840-1870, c.1840-1870
- Physical Dimensions: largest cane w.81 x d3.88 cm
- Type: Cane
- External Link: Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass
- Medium: Glass
- Object ID: PW 1958.520.518
- Credit Line: Bequest of Evangeline H. Bergstrom
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