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THE CATALOGUE
Featuring
paperweights and glass art from the collection of
Mr. Seymour Segan - Part I These lots are indicated with a "
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Dedicated to the memory of our friend Neil Drysdale,
president of Perthshire Paperweights, and a great glass loving
gentleman.
Part I: Antique Paperweights
& Related Objects
Like designers in other mediums, glass stylists borrowed from
everywhere: from Etruscan vases, from Bohemia, from chancels,
chalices, and armored helmets, from Venice and Turkey, and from
each other. They seemed to want to prove that glass could imitate
any other material. …But paperweight makers succumbed to
none of these excesses.
-Paul Hollister
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*Antique Saint Louis magnum upright bouquet paperweight.
A large faceted globe magnifies a dense bouquet comprising several
salmon-pink and blue flowers within several green leaves. The
size of this work suggests its origin, perhaps, as a newel post
for which the factory of Saint Louis was well-known. "Starting
in 1829 Saint Louis once again appeared at the Exhibition of
French Industrial Finished Products, where it gradually began
showing articles which heralded the paperweights to come: colored
crystal, filigrees, opalines and other fantasy pieces in crystal.
Saint Louis seemed quite obviously suited to making paperweights.
…(They) also made doorknobs or newel posts like millefiori
balls or flower weights. Letters from Launay, the commercial
correspondent in Paris, mention them as early as October 1848."
-Edith Mannoni, Classic French Paperweights.[Sotheby's London,
Nov. 1995, Sale #LN5676, "English and Continental Ceramics
and Glass," Lot 441; also exhibited at Spinks, June 1982,
No. 144.]
Height 4 1/8", Diameter 4". $8000-12,000 |
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*Antique Clichy faceted concentric millefiori mushroom
paperweight. The vivid tuft is formed with four rows of millefiori,
including a row of seven green and white rose canes, which show
off their snowy petals alongside dark violet pastry mold canes.
To the delight of Clichy collectors, this design includes a row
of eleven rare green roses, which enclose the central large pink
and green rose cane. The mushroom stem is formed by alternating
elongated pink and white staves; with six and one faceting, star-cut
base, and painted in red enamel with accession number 1965.107.
Some wear along the facets. [Sotheby's New York, Jan. 1995, Sale
#6656, "Important Paperweights Property of the New-York
Historical Society," Lot 210.] See Glass Paperweights of
the New-York Historical Society, p. 39, color plate 21.
Diameter 2 13/16". $10,000-12,000
-Provenance: The Sinclair Collection, New Hampshire
-Exhibited at The Albany Institute of History and Art, Dec. 1972
to March 1973; The Everson Museum of Art, April to June 1973,
The Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum, July to Sept. 1973; The Hudson
River Museum, Sept. 1972 to Dec. 1973; The Arnot Art Museum,
Dec. 1973 to Feb. 1974.
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