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Glossary of Paperweight Terms
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Cabbage rose Clichy
 
A Clichy rose composed of cabbage like strands of glass that may have been formed in a rose-cane mold
Cameo   See sulphide
 
Cameo incrustation
 
  Any type of sulphide object.
Candy   Denotes a scrambled millefiori paperweight.
 
Cane
(or floret)
Baccarat
 
A small piece of molded or bundled glass rod that has been pulled out so an intricate pattern appears in cross section.
 
Carpet ground Perthshire
 
An overall pattern of identical millefiori canes used as a ground.
 
Chaplet bead
 
  A twist of latticinio thread.
Chequer weight   A paperweight in which the millefiori canes are separated by short lengths of latticinio twists in a checkerboard fashion.
 
Choufleur   From the French for cauliflower;a kind of ground made up of canes set loosely and with a twist. See also ground.
 
Chrysoprase   Apple green in color.
 
Cinquefoil   A garland of canes having five loops.
 
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Glossary text from The Art of the Paperweight used courtesy of L. H. Selman Ltd.

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