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Lot 12
Antique Bohemian overlay spaced concentric complex millefiori
paperweight, in red, blue, green and white, on a cushion
of white upset muslin with bits of blue and red filigree; red-over-white
double overlay with all over circular facets.
Diameter 2 7/8". $6000-8000 |
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Lot 13
*Antique Baccarat carpet panel paperweight, made of
complex canes in star, cog, and arrowhead designs. The shape
resembles the outline of a flower, comprised of bundles of aqua
tubes sheathed in white, the dense carpeting masks bits of brightly
colored twists and filigree, that one can see through the bottom
of the weight.
Diameter 2 1/2". $7000-12,000 |
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Lot 14
*Antique Saint Louis dated concentric millefiori paperweight,
with a white silhouette of a camel in the center. This response
to Baccarat's Gridel canes is, to quote Hollister, "a hyper-lumpy,
rubber-kneed camel," yet was surely appealing to clients
who romanticized adventurers in the Far East and their fantastic
creatures. Eighteen canes in an outer ring contain the tiny silhouette
of a dancing couple. In the magical world of glass, what may
have began as a molded cane as large as the weight itself, has
been pulled down so the lilliputian figures take up less than
a millimeter. Signed and dated "SL1848". "In
the late 1930's two Chicago friends, Mr. W. Russell Button and
Mr. Alvin E. Bastian, acquired the former collection of the celebrated
Mr. Oscar Wilde. Both of these gentlemen had stated that paperweights
presented here were once segments of this notable selection."
--Fred Nagel, "Remembering," Annual Bulletin of the
Paperweight Collectors' Association (1970). See Annual Bulletin
of the PCA (1970), fig. 7, p. 29.
Diameter 3 1/8". $6000-8000
--Provenance: Collection of Oscar Wilde. |