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Click on the image to enlarge Lot 6 Clichy antique millefiori C-scroll garlands paperweight. Exhibiting the "C" motif within their design, this composition shows off the best features of an elaborate Clichy paperweight. The millefiori are varied in vivid color, mixing complex canes in earthy tones of eggplant and tomato red, encircling transparent pale pink and aquamarine ruffled canes. The C-scroll garlands include cobalt blue pastry-mold canes, moss canes, and are punctuated with two pink and green roses. The reverse side of the paperweight shows the white filigree canes running straight across the weight, also typifying it as a Clichy design. Diameter 3 1/8". $3000-3500

Click on the image to enlarge Lot 7 Baccarat antique concentric complex millefiori with translucent overlay paperweight. The central complex cane, a so-called arrowhead (or crowsfoot), distinguishes this small paperweight as a Baccarat work. The surrounding canes are comprised of six-pointed stars, stardust, florets, and cogs. The palette restricts the millefiori to white, ruby red, and scarlet, with accents of pale blue and green. Handsomely accented with a green flash overlay with five and one facets. Minor chips along facets. "Geometrical patterns such as millefiori circles and garlands are sometimes set on a flat translucent colorless ground. When placed above a colourless ground, these ornaments look as if they were floating in the paperweight." -Paperweights (Baccarat): Glasgalerie Kovacek Wein. Diameter 2 5/8". $3500-4000

Click on the image to enlarge Lot 8 Baccarat antique dated B1848 carpet ground with scattered millefiori paperweight. Nine silhouette canes of exceptional quality, and other complex canes containing six-point stars, whorls and arrows, are sunken into a red and white stardust carpet ground. A B1848 signature/date cane sits just below one of two "butterfly" canes. The more usual Gridel suspects include the black dog, stag, and horse. This paperweight, however, is also a bird sanctuary: with a tiny white bird on red ground encircled by nine shamrocks, and a flawless example of the lovely Le Cygne Blanc, the White Swan picture cane. (See, fig 4.11, p 30, The Glass Menagerie.) Diameter 2 15/16". $13,000-15,000

Click on the image to enlarge Lot 9 American antique New England Glass Company magnum upright floral and fruit bouquet paperweight. A complex bouquet presentation, somewhat resembling a bundled sheaf, which contains two golden peaches and two red apples tucked into a gather of four blossoms. A tremendous rose bud appears about to unfurl, and the arrangement rests over a double-swirl white latticinio basket. "These superb three-dimensional magnum beauties rank among the best of all paperweights produced by the New England Glass Company, and, in fact, the best produced by any glassworks. They made very few of these, and again, no duplicates exist. Their quality is such that they probably served as presentation pieces given to important personages." -The Art of the Paperweight: The Boston & Sandwich and New England Glass Companies. (See, fig 7.128, p 159, The Art of the Paperweight.) Diameter 3 1/2". $9500-10,500