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Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 16 Baccarat antique white-edged pink primrose paperweight. The petals are well made, exhibiting the delicate heart-shaped edges cupped towards the rose-pink interior. The stardust/bull's-eye center cane is sharp and well-centered. The bloom fills up the paperweight's space with five green leaves at the top of the blossom, and a full six coming from the curved stem. On a clear, star-cut ground, with vertical flutes around the lower half creating an interesting presentation. Minor chips along facets. Diameter 2 7/8". $1500-1700
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 17 Baccarat antique clematis buds paperweight. This symmetrical presentation shows five white buds in profile, with green leaves and stems, enhanced by the star-cut ground and six-and-one faceting. (See, fig 39, p 24, Collectors' Paperweights Price Guide and Catalogue.) Diameter 2 7/8". $1800-2500
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 18 Baccarat antique close packed millefiori mushroom paperweight. The mushroom head includes a rare flower portrait cane, and surrounds it with trefoil, quatrefoil, fortress, honeycomb, whorl, shamrock, stardust, and arrowhead canes. Framing the bottom of the paperweight is a blue and white torsade, on clear, star-cut ground. Diameter 2 9/16". $1700-2500
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 19 Baccarat antique wheatflower paperweight. The petals are deeply veined, and the pale sky blue spots were applied with great care. The pale yellow, star honeycomb cane, with a red six-point star center, is another example of the consummate skill going into even the smallest parts of the paperweight design. Wonderful bright green ribbed leaves frame the flower and the stem, on clear, star-cut ground. Minor chips on base and star-cut. Diameter 2 5/8". $2500-3250
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 20 Saint Louis antique upright bouquet paperweight. Comprised of lampwork and cane flowers, this bouquet offers unusually colored blooms amongst bright green crimped leaves: a yellow and blue striped fantasy flower, whose petal shapes recall a lily; a three petaled flower, with salmon colored veins and a frosted appearance at the tips; and a rich cobalt blue lampwork flower with a yellow center. Two millefiori lean out with complex faces of cog and star canes in shades of pink, white, and blue. As in other Saint Louis upright bouquets, the design features a "strawberry-cut" ground, and the flowers are multiplied with all over circular facets. Diameter 2 15/16". $3000-3750
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 21 Baccarat antique green snake paperweight, with red and black eyes, coiled on a pebbly green and beige ground, flecked with mica. On the convincingly earthy looking ground, the slender reptile coils in a relaxed manner. A matte green design dresses his lighter green body. The paperweight is well made, evidenced by the lack of bubbles around the lampwork body. As for the motif, the 19th c. artists were fond of this long standing symbol of youth and renewal. (See, lot 159, Important Paperweights from a Private Collection, Sotheby's; and, fig 1177, p 60, Glass Paperweights of the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum.) Diameter 3 3/16". $7000-9000