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 Lot 12
*Antique Saint Louis close concentric millefiori paperweight,
with a central silhouette cane of a dancing devil, and concentric
garlands of complex floret, hollow stave, bull's-eye, whorl,
cog and star canes. The coloration of this piece is notable,
with lavender, pink, ruby, goldenrod, pale blue, cobalt blue
and green. With a basket of hollow red and white cog canes.
Diameter 2 3/4". $4500-6000 |
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 Lot 13
*Unusual antique Saint Louis dated concentric millefiori
paperweight, with a central silhouette cane of a hound, and
23 microscopic silhouettes of a dancing woman in the outer ring.
In a variety of green glass colors, from a pale celery, chartreuse,
and extending to a dark pine green, complex canes encircle the
center, with floret, fortress, crimp-cog, hollow stave, star
and whorl canes. SL1848 signature/date cane ("1848"
in reverse). See The Art of the Paperweight, pp. 75, 83-84; The
Encylopedia of Glass Paperweights, pp. 90-93.
Diameter 3". $7000-9000 |
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 Lot 14
*Antique Saint Louis two clematis flowers on colorground
paperweight. A simple arrangement, with a five-petaled red
flower and ten-petaled white flower, both with yellow matchhead
centers, on a curved, mutual stem with five crimped green leaves,
on a cobalt blue ground.
Diameter 3". $4750-6000
"As both factories, St. Louis as well as Baccarat, are
situated in an area where neither lampworking or cane drawing
was truly rooted, they may have met the same problems, i.e. having
at their disposition only a small number of glassblowers who
were able to do exceptional millefiori and lampworking. This
may have been the major reason for producing their finest weights
only during a short period - to continue this production line
only on a smaller scale and with quite common patterns."
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