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*Antique Pantin crimson-tinted rose paperweight on
opaque white ground with one crimson bud, in a dimensional portrayal
displaying numerous shaded crimson-to-pink petals, enclosing
yellow stamens, inside four well-made, but obscured mint green
sepals, set low on a blunt stalk with five broad leaves, colored
in an aqua overlay. The flower appears suspended above the milk-white
ground. Scholars commonly classify a group of paperweights exhibiting
qualities similar to this one as Pantin, but definitive attribution
may allude some designs. "Wherever they were made they
are Victorian workmanship at its best." -Paul Hollister,
Glass Paperweights of the New-York Historical Society. "It
seems to me that Pantin has become the attribution for all paperweights
that look excellent, but to which the labels Clichy, Saint Louis
or Baccarat can under no circumstances be attached."
-Sibylle Jargstorf, Paperweights. See Antique Glass Paperweights
from France, p. 64; The Art of the Paperweight, pp. 45-46; A
Collector's Guide to Paperweights, p. 54; The Encyclopedia of
Glass Paperweights, pp. 148-150; Paperweight Collector's Association
Bulletin, 1965, 1981, 1985.
Diameter 3". $4500-6000 |
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*Antique French Pantin rose colorground paperweight,
the clear glass set with a dimensional flower composed with an
abundance of blush-pink overlapping petals enfolding a yellow
stamen center, growing from a curved green stem, with four aquamarine
leaves at its bottom, and three top leaves in mixed shades of
green, set on an opaque white ground. According to Paul Hollister,
the Exposition Universelle of 1878 in Paris, created a paperweight
revival and the focus was on three-dimensional designs, which
suggests that this paperweight may have been made at that time.
Painted in red enamel with accession number 1965.379. [Sotheby's
New York, Jan. 1995, Sale #6656 "Important Paperweights
Property of the New-York Historical Society," Lot 192.]
-See Glass Paperweights of the New-York Historical Society, p.
64, color plate 46).
Diameter 2 5/8". $9000-12,000
-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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