Quiet from across the room, full of detail up close. Milky white flecks drift through clear glass with a soft iridescent sheen, and slender glass strands run through the middle. In a sunny window it picks up faint pinks and lilacs from the light around it.

White goes with everything, so this is the one to choose when you do not know the color of their kitchen. It suits a wedding, an engagement, a christening or a winter windowsill equally well. Eastern European glassmakers blow every ball by mouth, so the pattern of flecks belongs to that ball alone and will vary from the photographs.

The ball is roughly 10cm wide (about 4 inches) and comes boxed with a ribbon for hanging and a tag that shares the centuries-old story of spirit balls. Display it inside or out. The stand shown in the room photo is not included.