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October 13, 2000

Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 31 Baccarat red and white primrose paperweight. The flower is composed of five, shaded, red and white striped petals about a blue cane stamen, surrounded by two rings of white stardust canes, and grows from a sturdy stalk with six leaves exhibiting typical Baccarat veining. The blossom is crowned by couplets of green leaves, and is encircled by a blue and white complex millefiori garland of cog and floret canes on clear ground. Diameter 3 1/8". Estimate: $3000 - 3500
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 32 Baccarat clematis and bud paperweight, the flower with six ridged, red and white petals. The central details of this flower show the deft skills of the glass artist. The center of the clematis is a hexagonal shape made up of a bull's-eye cane surrounded by two rows of stardust canes. Tiny beads of air float between each of the six leaves and emphasize its three-dimensionality. A bursting red bud emerges from the wilds of the green leaves, suspended in its clear crystal ground. Diameter 3 1/16". Estimate: $3500 - 4500
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 33 Baccarat red and white primrose paperweight, with a white stardust/bull's-eye cane center. The bloom seems to seep red over the dark green leaves, set off by a star-cut ground. Diameter 2 7/8". Estimate: $1600 - 2000
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 34 Baccarat miniature royal blue and white six-petal wallflower paperweight. Each of the four green leaves is unique in style, including a slender red-veined leaf. The motif is encircled by a millefiori garland, which shows the minute detailing in the stardust and arrow canes that make Baccarat paperweights so delightful, especially on a miniature scale. On clear, star-cut ground; with all-over printies. Diameter 2". Estimate: $2000 - 2500
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 35 Baccarat double clematis paperweight with ribbed mauve petals, a rogue red bud, green leaves and stems on a clear, star-cut ground; six and one facets. "A fine antique French paperweight is indubitably, by any standard, a combination of beauty and harmony, execution and technique. If it is true that the artistic merits of an object are in proportion to the success with which draftsmanship or craftsmanship has been blended with taste, then antique French paperweights must score very high." -A Garland of Weights, Frank J. Manheim (1967). Diameter 2 7/8". Estimate: $2500 - 3000
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 36 Baccarat cobalt blue and white striped primrose paperweight with a stardust/bull's-eye center. Dark green leaves nod smoothly near the stem; serrated smaller ones crown the flower head. The blossom rests on a clear star-cut ground. Diameter 2 7/16". Estimate: $1000 - 1500