Outstanding antique Clichy faceted close packed millefiori mushroom paperweight. The tuft of the mushroom contains a multitude of assorted complex canes, including a pink and green rose, a white and green rose and a white rose, resting on a basket of white staves which is shaped into a stem, over clear star-cut ground. Five and one facets. "These weights, while sometimes referred to individually as baskets, bouquets, or nosegays, have, for reasons that are visually obvious, come to be known-somewhat less poetically-as mushrooms."-Glass Paperweights in The Art Institute of Chicago. Provenance: JoAnn Caruso Syvertson Collection. Diameter 3".