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Lot 58
Bacchus antique concentric complex millefiori paperweight,
with a large red, white and blue center cane and a border ring
of teal-centered hollow white canes. Unpolished pontil. "It
was very rare for Bacchus to make more than one paperweight of
the same pattern, as only one or two pieces have been found to
be the same as another. Although they used the same canes in
many paperweights, they all tend to show many differences in
design, color, and construction." -Old English Paperweights.
Diameter 3 1/2". $2000-3000 |
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Lot 59
Bacchus antique concentric complex millefiori paperweight,
with a large blue and white ruffled center cane surrounded by
five rings of delicate abalone shell-like colors, all with a
cross motif. A final surround of pink staves, resembling stalks
of rhubarb, create a curved basket. Underneath, the paperweight's
base has been finished off to exhibit the central cane in miniature.
Bacchus paperweights are often found with these odd special canes,
either part of the top design, or as a hidden "rogue cane"
placed in the porthole; it was a means of the glass-artist to
say "I made this, that signature mark is mine."
(See, p 37, Old English Paperweights.)
Diameter 3 1/4". $2000-3000 |
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Lot 60
Val St. Lambert antique crucifix sulphide paperweight.
With a cobalt blue ground, a cameo depicting Christ on the cross
is flanked by two women in saintly pose, decorated with twisted
ribbon garland of blue, red, yellow, and white.
Diameter 3 5/8". $800-1500 |
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Lot 61
Walsh-Walsh antique concentric millefiori paperweight,
including cog, ruffle and pinwheel canes, in shades of red, green,
purple, blue and white. The outermost ring's regular pattern
of purple cog canes, is interrupted for a sequence with nine
different canes.
Diameter 3 3/4". $550-750 |
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Lot 62
Bacchus antique close packed complex millefiori paperweight,
with ruffle, cog and cross canes in red, blue, aqua and white.
The array includes a Queen Victoria silhouette facing left, or
"sinister" profile. The image is presumably the "Young
Queen" head, but her featured bun has been shorn, and as
a result of this hairstyle, she rather resembles her beloved
Prince Albert. Still a royal visage worthy of a Bacchus design,
but probably not intended. Unpolished pontil. "We are
not amused." -Queen Victoria. Diameter 3 1/4".
$4000-5000 |
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Lot 63
Val St. Lambert antique patterned millefiori paperweight,
with a central white rose cane, encircled by radiating twists
alternating with complex canes, and a square-shaped border of
twisted latticinio, on white ground. This paperweight, with the
sunken twists merged into the milky glass ground, does appear
to be made of "sodden-snow," or perhaps, as Hollister
suggests, something of a more distinctively Belgian taste. Inscribed
on base, "1895 VV." "Generally, it can be said
that there is something of the ice cream parlor about the Val
St. Lambert weights."-The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights.
Diameter 3 9/16". $1300-1800 |
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Lot 64
Whitefriars antique concentric millefiori paperweight
with alternating rings of red, white and blue canes. Unpolished
pontil.
Diameter 2 13/16". $425-550 |
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