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 Lot 9
Antique Baccarat close packed millefiori mushroom paperweight,
the tuft composed of complex canes, including six-point stars,
quatrefoil, fortress, arrowhead, stardust, shamrock and chofleur
canes in ruby, salmon, cobalt blue, green, aquamarine, pale yellow
and white. A three-dimensional stem extends to a star-cut base,
inside a spiraling blue and white lace filigree torsade. Slight
scuffing on sides.
Diameter 3 1/8". $1600-2250 |
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 Lot 10
*Antique Baccarat trefoil garlands millefiori colorground
paperweight, with two entwined trefoil garlands encompassing
six silhouette canes: dog, rooster, stag, butterfly, goat and
pair of lovebirds. The garlands are composed of white stardust
and green whorl canes, and six-point star canes in white, green
and red, set on a ruby flash ground. Provenance: Collection
of Sr. Ing. Manuel Gonzales De Cosio of Mexico; Sold at Sotheby's
London, July 3, 1967, Lot 133; Collection of Frances Fairchild.
See Annual Bulletin of the Paperweight Collectors' Association
(1982), page 8, fig. 6; Antique Glass Paperweights from France,
page 56, plate 16, fig. 7.
Diameter 2 13/16". $7500-8500 |
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 Lot 11
*Very nice antique Saint Louis carpet ground paperweight,
with a cluster of hollow, cobalt blue, cog canes at the center,
surrounded with a concentric ring of white cog canes and a ring
of hollow pink cog canes. The attractive carpet is composed of
fourteen-toothed white cog rod canes, cased with red and centered
with cornflower-blue and white florets. Provenance: Collection
of Frances Fairchild.
Diameter 3". $7500-9000
"Subtle carpet tonalities are created by close color
juxtapositions… (T)he large carpet grounds rank with the
finest weights made." -The Encylopedia of Glass Paperweights. |
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