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Lot 6
*Antique Baccarat bouquet paperweight, with a dazzling
and rare floral group composed of a large, central, double clematis,
surrounded by two Type-II pansies, a bud, and an opening rose
bud of deep red petals. Baccarat distinguishes itself by using
millefiori as details for the flowers' stamen, but this composition
is finer still for its exquisite and sensitive lampwork; plush
pansy petals like wine-filled balloons, the rose and its clingy
sepals a study of breathless, budding anticipation, and the broad
pleated face of the clematis a center of energy, like a white
flame. Star-cut base.
Diameter 3 1/2". $13,000-15,000 |
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Lot 7
*Antique Clichy concentric millefiori piedouche paperweight,
with seven rows of assorted complex millefiori, a row of
fifteen pink and green roses, a row of ten white roses, and a
large pink and green rose in the center, within a basket of turquoise
and white staves. A similar base is seen on a Clichy weight pictured
in Evangeline Bergstrom's, Old Glass Paperweights, ill. 31, p.
48. Height 2 3/16";
Diameter 2 5/8". $8000-11,000
--Provenance: Sotheby's New York, Sale 6512 on 12/6 and
8/93, Lot 105 |
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Lot 8
*Very rare antique dated Baccarat scattered millefiori
in blue carpet ground paperweight. The Gridels stand out
like bits of cruise ship party favors drifting on an ocean's
white-caps. The numerous silhouette canes include a dog, butterfly
or moth, goat, bird (framed within two shamrocks), deer, squirrel,
monkey, rooster, and pelican. But the detail in the complex canes
themselves exhibit that unerring confidence Baccarat artisans
had in their invention and taste. "...(T)he carpetgrounds
most prized by connoisseurs are the tightly packed miniature
canes in combinations of colors, such as blue and white..."
--Paperweights and Other Glass Curiosities. "Carpetgrounds,
usually associated with clustered paperweight designs, are among
the most appealing foils for colored and silhouette canes."--Paperweights,
'Flowers which clothe the meadows.' Signed/dated B1848, signed
upside down.
Diameter 2 3/4". $9000-12,000
--Provenance: Sotheby's New York Sale, 12/2/97, Lot 124 |
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