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THE CATALOGUE
Featuring
paperweights and glass art from the collection of
Mr. Seymour Segan - Part II These lots are indicated with a "
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Part I: Antique Paperweights
& Related Objects
"I attribute (paperweights') holding powers to the fertile
imaginations of their makers -- makers who have mastered a demanding
technology and demonstrated an elegant sense of design. Fortunately,
we live in a time when these virtues are no less abundant...
although it sometimes takes considerable effort to find the evidence."
--Dwight P. Lanmon, The Art of the Paperweight
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*Very rare antique Clichy magnum chequer paperweight,
with two pink roses. Unusual for its proportions, its variety
of canes, including an auburn-cloaked cog cane next to a sky-blue
pastry mold, and for the abundance of good, clean filigree. "However,
usually, the very large florets, including fine Clichy roses
in various colors, stand out rich and bold against the white
filigree, the ground's opacity reinforced by parallel filigree
rods placed beneath it." --The Encyclopedia of Glass
Paperweights. See Antique French Paperweights, p. 114; The Art
of the Paperweight, p. 85; Classic French Paperweights, p. 51;
A Collector's Guide to Paperweights, p. 49; The Encyclopedia
of Glass Paperweights, pp. 128-130; Glass Paperweights of the
Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, plate 25, ill. 1181; Paperweights for
Collectors, p. 57.
Diameter 4 5/16". $12,000-15,000
-- Provenance: Sold by Sotheby's 12/18/89, Lot 132, Spink
and Son Ltd., London, from the collection of Mike Belkin; sold
Sotheby's New York, Sale 6512, 12/6 and 8/93, Lot 81 |
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 Lot
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*Very rare antique Baccarat dated magnum close packed
millefiori paperweight. Brightly colored canes, including
silhouettes of an elephant, monkey, bird, shamrocks, goat, flower,
rooster, horse, and two dogs. A blanket of wildly different canes,
compels the eye to try and identify each and every one. "'Close'
millefiori refers to the close vertical packing together of the
canes, like people in a dense crowd. The patchwork quilt of one
hundred or one hundred and fifty canes in a close millefiori
paperweight offers a sampling of many or most of the canes made
by a factory, and treats the eye to an almost endless variety."
--Glass Paperweights of the New-York Historical Society.
See The Art of the Paperweight, p. 80; Collectors' Paperweights
Price Guide and Catalogue (1983), p. 81; The Encyclopedia of
Glass Paperweights, pp. 53-54. "B1847" signature and
date cane; on diamond-cut base with applied paper labels.
Diameter 4". $14,000-18,000
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