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 Lot 6
*Antique Baccarat faceted patterned millefiori emerald
flash overlay paperweight, with Gridel silhouette canes of
a goat, rooster, horse, pelican and two squirrels. Surrounding
a complex center cane of arrowhead and star canes, with a small
circle of blue and white arrowhead canes, are well-made, interlaced
trefoil garlands comprised of white star and green whorl canes,
and red and white whorls around blue star canes. With a circular
top facet, a row of circular side facets, and scalloped facets
around the base. Minor chips.
Diameter 3 3/16". $5000-6000 |
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 Lot 7
Antique Clichy faceted close concentric millefiori mushroom
double overlay paperweight, the bouquet centered with a chain
of nine pink and green Type-I roses, encircling a central moss
cane. The next four rows are composed of rings of edelweiss,
floret and pastry mold canes, in green, purple, white, pink and
blue. An outer ring of pink and white staves form the stem of
the bouquet. With a turquoise-over-white overlay, five and one
faceting, and fancy cutting on the base. Minor chip in overlay.
Diameter 3 3/16". $10,000-15,000
"Although it is not entirely certain when Clichy began,
with some theories placing it at 1837 or 1838, it is certain
that by 1870 the factory's reputation had declined and paperweight
production ceased in 1885 when the company was purchased by Sèvres.
In its short history there is a progressive panoply of perfection
in its rose canes. …If Clichy were not the originator of
the rose cane concept, it certainly developed it far beyond the
millefiori designs of its counterparts." -Annual Bulletin
of the Paperweight Collectors' Association (1999). |
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 Lot 8
Antique Baccarat dated scattered millefiori on tumbled
latticinio paperweight, with the Gridel silhouettes of a
horse, elephant, stag, goat, monkey, squirrel and pheasant, and
two flower picture canes, in a bed of latticinio and colored
filigree. B1847 signature/date cane.
Diameter 3". $3500-4000
"…(T)he silhouette canes were decided upon by Jean-Baptiste
Toussaint, a nineteenth-century industrialist and general manager
of Baccarat, who discovered his eight-year-old nephew Emile Gridel
making paper cutouts of animals - 'so falteringly made.' That
was in 1846." -The Encylopedia of Glass Paperweights. |
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