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Lot 28
Baccarat antique dated B1847 close packed millefiori
paperweight. Including six-pointed star canes, whorl canes, arrow
canes, trefoil canes, quatrefoil canes, fortress canes, cog canes,
and bull's-eye canes, in cobalt blue, pink, ruby, turquoise,
salmon, leaf green, yellow, mauve, and white. There are two Gridel
silhouette canes, a white monkey and a blue dog; and three flower
canes, two different primroses and a daisy. B1847 signature/date
cane. "The patchwork quilt of one hundred or one hundred
and fifty canes in a close millefiori paperweight offers a sampling
of many or most of the canes made by a factory, and treats the
eye to an almost endless variety." -Glass Paperweights
of the New-York Historical Society. Diameter 2 1/2". $2500-3000 |
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Lot 29
Baccarat antique dated B1848 spaced complex millefiori
paperweight. Including seven Gridel silhouettes, which show
good detail and proportion in the cane slices; also picture canes
of a butterfly, a flower, and the rare swan cane, on upset muslin
with a few segments of colored filigrana. B1848 signature/date
cane. Minor striations. (See, pp 72-73, The Art of the Paperweight;
p 65, The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights; and plate 15, ill.
406, Glass Paperweights of the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum.)
Diameter 2 3/4". $3000-3500 |
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Lot 30
Baccarat antique concentric millefiori paperweight
containing six-pointed star, arrow, whorl, stardust/bull's-eye
and cog canes, in cobalt blue, ruby, turquoise, salmon, leafgreen,
and white. The design rings around the Baccarat factory's trademark
arrow/six-pointed star cane.
Diameter 2 1/2". $550-700 |
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Lot 31
Baccarat antique dated 1847 close packed millefiori paperweight.
This marvelous densely designed paperweight makes the most of
its low-profile glass estate with a rich population of millefiori.
Complex designs of whorls, bull's-eyes, arrows, trefoils, quatrefoils,
honeycomb, fortress, irregular flower, cog, shamrock, stardust
and six-pointed star canes in every color available to glass
makers at the time, including cobalt blue, ruby, turquoise, salmon,
leaf green, emerald, yellow and white. All over tumbled latticinio.
B1847 signature/date cane. A bubble in the dome.
Diameter 2 7/8". $3000-3500 |
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Lot 32
Baccarat antique star-pattern piedouche paperweight, with
spaced concentric garlands of complex canes in pale green, blue,
red and white. The large presentation has a footed base with
a blue and white torsade. "This type differ in shape
from other paperweights in that it has a foot of the type found
on a glass or china doorknob. Thus they stand tall in a collection
of paperweights and make a pretty or striking addition..."
-Antique Glass Paperweights from France.
Diameter 3 3/16". $7500-8500 |
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Lot 33
Baccarat antique macedoine paperweight. Rather than
a millefiori "scramble," Baccarat creates an elegant
"fruit salad" mosaic. Offering the lone visual anchor
of a blue and white whorl cane, the artist has carefully surrounded
it at right angles with sections of twists and latticinio in
blue, coral, green, yellow and white. It threatens chaos, but
retains it's heart of French civility. Minor chips in base.
Diameter 2 15/16". $800-1000 |
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