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18. Baccarat fantasy flower bouquet garland weight. One of the blooms cleverly utilizes the factory’s arrow canes as petals arranged around a six-pointed star/star honeycomb center. The other daisy-type flower contains white petals around a very small honeycomb cane. The flowers bloom on the same stalk with emerald green leaves inside a garland of alternating stardust/bull’s-eye canes and six-pointed star/cog canes. Allover triangular faceting. Diameter 2 3/16". $2000–3000

19. Baccarat anemone weight, the petals with pointed ruby tips and ridged white loops, around a red and white stardust/bull’s-eye cane, on a stalk with emerald green leaves over a star-cut ground. The base of the piece is faceted with vertical oval printies. In the parlance of Victorian flower language, the anemone represented love forsaken. (See The Art of the Paperweight, p. 93; Identifying Antique Paperweights—Lampwork, p. 1 and plate 1; Sotheby’s New York January 18, 1995 sale, lot 287) Diameter 2 11/16". $1200–1600

20. Baccarat pansy weight, the flower, with deep purple upper petals and black-striped purple and yellow lower petals around a red and white stardust/bull’s-eye cane, on a stalk with a yellow and purple bud and emerald green leaves, over a star-cut ground. In Victorian flower language, the pansy symbolized tender thoughts. It was also shown as a symbol of support for Napoleon. (See The Art of the Paperweight, pp. 96–98; The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights, pp. 62–63; Identifying Antique Paperweights—Lampwork, p. 15 and plate 4; Paperweights for Collectors, pp. 70–71; Sotheby’s New York January 18, 1995 sale, lot 32) Diameter 2 9/16". $450–650

21. Unusual Saint Louis clematis bouquet weight containing two five-petaled flowers, in pink and cobalt blue, each with a complex cane center, growing from a stalk with spring green leaves. Allover square-shaped geometric faceting. The cutting on this piece is not original. Small annealing crack by the blue flower and in a leaf. Diameter 2 3/8". $800–1100

22. Unusual Saint Louis upright bouquet weight. A cobalt blue double clematis crowns a gathering with three millefiori canes and a cobalt blue lampwork blossom on a bed of emerald green leaves. The complex canes include florets, star canes and cog canes, in ruby, salmon, powder blue and white. This bouquet does not have a three-dimensional stem. Instead, the _owers have been arranged directly inside a blue and white lace _ligree torsade to create a pleasing basket effect. The _owers are contained in a crystal dome with a circular top facet and two rows of side facets. Small chips to three of the facets. Diameter 3 1/8". $2250–3250

23. Saint Louis faceted upright bouquet weight, a dimensional bouquet, containing a complex anchor/six-pointed star cane and a complex star/rod cane, with lampwork blossoms in Persian blue, yellow, salmon, white and green. The arrangement is crowned by a white clematis with a yellow matchead center. The flowers are nestled inside a bed of spring green leaves with a tapered stem that extends down to the base of the piece inside a salmon and white lace filigree torsade. Allover geometric faceting. Faint thread of black glass in the dome. Minor chip in one facet. "The gorgeous bouquet glows with the exotic beauty of some rare undersea blossoms."—The Art of the Paperweight—Challenging Tradition. (See The Art of the Paperweight, pp. 103–104; The Art of the Paperweight—Saint Louis, p. 13; A Collector’s Guide to Paperweights, p. 38; The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights, pp. 109–111; Glass Paperweights, pp. 6, 46; Paperweights for Collectors, pp. 17, 79, 81) Diameter 2 11/16". $2000–3000