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Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 40 Clichy antique spaced millefiori paperweight, with a central pink and green rose, surrounded by assorted complex canes in cobalt, amethyst, ruby red, pale yellow, and thalo blue. An edelweiss cane pops up, as do two green and white roses; one in a very tight arrangement and the other unfolded a bit, exhibiting all the petals. The hexagonal shape of the millefiori rests on clear ground. Diameter 2 7/16". $1600-2000
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 41 Clichy antique miniature spaced concentric millefiori paperweight, with five pink and green roses in the border garland, on clear ground; top facet and rectangular side facets. (See, p 82, The Art of the Paperweight; p 130, The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights.) Diameter 1 15/16". $1600-2000
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 42 Clichy antique millefiori chequer paperweight. With pink, ruby, aquamarine, lilac, green, thalo blue, cherry red, purple, cobalt and white, on white upset muslin with two small pieces of colored filigree. As Hollister describes this "chequer" type: "Really a spaced millefiori with the canes separated by filigree... (M)any chequers are boldly but indifferently executed... However, usually the very large florets... stand out rich and bold against the white filigree..." -The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights. Diameter 2 7/16". $1200-1500
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 43 Clichy antique spaced millefiori paperweight. Around a swollen, blush pink and green Type I rose cane, a circle of six full-skirted complex canes in the usual array of gem-like Clichy coloration, are surrounded by another ring of twelve lovely millefiori, all on clear ground. "In life as in art perhaps our salvation is the handful of seed, out of which we imagine gardens." - Winfield T. Scott. Diameter 2 9/16". $2000-2500
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 44 Clichy antique trefoil garland paperweight, composed of cadmium green pastry mold canes looped around seven complex canes, including one Type II pink and green rose. The rose's sepals are an exceptionally dark green casing. Spaced on clear ground. Diameter 2 3/8". $2500-3000
Click on the image to enlarge	Lot 45 Clichy antique miniature open concentric millefiori paperweight, with the central axis, a green and white Clichy rose, surrounded by eight complex amethyst-colored pastry mold canes. The outer ring contains single pink, white, and green pastry mold canes alternating with pairs of green and white floret canes, on clear ground. Diameter 1 3/4". $700-1000