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 Lot
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Rare antique Baccarat dated red carpet ground paperweight.
Every Gridel cane is an excellent example of Baccarat's menagerie,
including the horse, cockerel, stag, monkey, elephant and the
moth (or butterfly). A fine white bird with shamrocks, and a
complex whorl and hollow stave cane design, indicate the intense
work that went into these compositions. "The carpet ground
is the most sophisticated version of millefiori glass."
--Paperweights. PCA Bulletin (1980), p. 28; PCA Bulletin (1979),
p. 27; One Hundred of the Most Important Paperweights, p. 54;
Paperweights: 'Flowers which clothe the meadows,' p. 32. Signed
and dated 'B1848" in blue and red lettering.
Diameter 2 15/16". $13,000-18,000 |
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10
*Antique Baccarat patterned millefiori shamrock and butterfly
paperweight, containing four rows of complex canes around
a central claret-colored cog cane. The center design is composed
of claret and white millefiori, including a ring of seven green
shamrocks framed in opaque white, with an outer circle of cobalt-blue,
white and red arrow-head canes, with a spaced garland of single
butterfly silhouette canes at the edge, all of it resting on
tumbled, white latticinio. The six rarely seen shamrocks are
quite large, as are the butterfly or "moth" canes around
the perimeter. "These are weights of power and impact,
whose design must have taken considerable thought."
--The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights.
Diameter 3". $8000-12,000
--Provenance: Applewhaite-Abbott Sale, Part II, Sotheby
and Co. London, Oct. 21, 1952, Lot 353; Christie's New York,
Sale 8728, 9/24/97; The Henry Stern Collection of Antique Glass
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 Lot
11
*Rare antique Saint Louis all-over faceted mushroom paperweight,
with white and blue floret canes at center, surrounded by
four rings of canes pulled down to a solid, rare, lime-green
stem. The rather homely-named mushroom belies that these designs
were among the most architectural of the concentric millefiori
arrangements. The tuft is in tight formation, with well-matched
complex canes, appearing like a fresh bouquet, with the outer
rings all pulled down to a fine stem-point. This presentation
is delightful, not only for its citron-colored ring of stave
canes (with a delicate flower pattern inside, placed throughout
the bouquet), but the all-over printies have one's eye darting
all about the surface.
Diameter 3". $4000-5000
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