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Lot 25
*Antique Clichy colorground paperweight, with assorted
millefiori forming a star-shaped arrangement set on a translucent
green ground. [Christie's New York, Sept. 24, 1997, Sale 8728,
"The Henry Stern Collection of Glass Paperweights,"
Lot 78.]
Diameter 3". $2000-2500
-Provenance: Sotheby and Co. London, 22 July 1952, Lot 119 |
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Lot 26
Antique Clichy scattered millefiori paperweight, including
two pink and rare green roses, on white upset muslin. See The
Art of the Paperweight, pp. 83-84; The Encyclopedia of Glass
Paperweights, p. 128; Glass Paperweights of the Bergstrom-Mahler
Museum, plate 15, ill. 149.
Diameter 2 3/16". $1400-1800 |
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Lot 27
Antique Clichy spaced millefiori paperweight, including
one pink and green Clichy rose cane, along with edelweiss, pastry
mold and floret canes, in ruby, scarlet, opaque pink, cadmium
green, royal blue, turquoise and white, set in clear glass. Diameter
2 13/16". $1400-1800 |
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Lot 28
Antique Clichy trefoil garland paperweight, composed
of dark green, pink and white florets, looped around
seven large complex canes, spaced on clear ground. "The
nearly total success of such a variety of arrangements is astounding-seldom
is a chain broken, a circle minus a cane, a garland curve distorted."
-The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights.
Diameter 2 1/2". $2500-3000 |
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Lot 29
Antique Clichy "mystery" millefiori paperweight,
in shades of blue, pink, green, red, purple and white, with
light blue canes, bordered by possibly a question-mark design
of six pink roses alternating with six white roses; purple and
white stave basket.
Diameter 2 5/8". $2800-3500 |
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Lot 30
Antique Clichy close packed millefiori paperweight, including
one yellow rose, and two pink and green roses, in a white stave
basket. "The French factories included their most spectacular
millefiori canes in close packed weights." See The Art
of the Paperweight, p. 81; The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights,
pp. 127-128; Glass Paperweights of the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum,
plate 11, ill. 189.
Diameter 2 1/16". $4500-6000 |
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