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Lot 22
Baccarat antique red and white wallflower paperweight.
A balanced composition, with a vivid flower design. The petals,
edged in bright red, draw one's eye immediately to the center,
with its arrowhead/six-point star cane. The floral is finished
with bright lime green multi-tipped leaves and an emerging red
bud. Encircled by a millefiori garland on clear star-cut ground;
top facet and two rows of side facets.
Diameter 2 5/8". $2500-3000 |
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Lot 23
Baccarat antique double clematis flower and garland paperweight.
In a lovely salmon color, the ribbon effect on the petals
adds a lacy delicate quality to the design. This composition
offers two slender buds, six leaves and curved stem, encircled
with a garland of alternating white, red and dark green millefiori
canes over star-cut ground. Double rows of faceting below a central
top facet creates a lot of drama inside this petite paperweight.
Diameter 2 9/16". $3000-4000 |
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Lot 24
Baccarat antique white double clematis and garland paperweight.
At the flower's center, the cristallerie's well-known "crowsfoot"
or arrowhead cane, which is repeated in the garland in the favored
red, white, and blue colors. The sunburst-cut ground and the
faceting add so much light and sparkle to the crystal, it seems
to make the charming little flower and its surrounding garland
ready to burst out of the paperweight. Minor chips on facets.
"There are no great things, only small things with great
love. Happy are those." -Mother Theresa.
Diameter 2". $1700-2500 |
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Lot 25
Baccarat antique white double clematis paperweight.
The petals are large and finely shaped, with veining. The center
of the clematis features a star honeycomb, and the blossom is
accompanied by eight green leaves, encircled by a complex millefiori
garland on clear, star-cut ground. Whether conceived with the
original design or later, the elaborate gemstone faceting is
unusual. Some striation in dome.
Diameter 2 3/4". $1300-1500 |
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Lot 26
Baccarat antique miniature clematis and garland floral
paperweight, composed of a double clematis with a star honeycomb
center and coral-colored, deeply veined petals. The tiny flower
is surrounded by wide green leaves and encircled by a complex
millefiori garland. The alternating stardust/bull's-eye canes
are particularly vivid in this small presentation, which rests
on clear, star-cut ground. "To me the meanest flower
that blows can give, thoughts that do often lie too deep for
tears." -William Wordsworth.
Diameter 2". $2000-2500 |
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Lot 27
Saint Louis antique pink pompon paperweight, set with
bud and leaves on a latticinio double-swirl ground. The flower's
petals are well made and have a compelling, diaphanous quality.
A pert central complex cane in red, blue, and white. Some minor
striation in dome. "Perhaps the finest Saint Louis flower,
the feathery camomile... Unlike Baccarat, the flower petals here
are often carefully bled out into the surrounding clear glass
giving the flower a gossamer quality that is one of the triumphs
of paperweight-making." -The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights.
Diameter 2 9/16". $1700-2500 |