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 Lot 18
Antique Clichy millefiori chequer paperweight, with
a central pink and green rose. The ample, clear glass is set
with assorted millefiori, divided by short segments of white
latticinio, set on a bed of lace.
Diameter 3 3/16". $3500-5000 |
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 Lot 19
*Very rare antique Clichy signed millefiori piedouche
paperweight. A prominent central "C" signature
cane is easily identified, and nestled in a close packed assortment
of a variety of millefiori in green, white, pink, red and blue.
The pedestal is composed of cobalt blue and white staves; clear
base.
-See Annual Bulletin of the Paperweight Collectors' Association,
(1970); (1983).
Height 2 1/16"; Diameter 2 3/8". $4250-6000 |
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 Lot 20
*Antique Clichy open concentric millefiori sodden-snow
paperweight, with complex canes in red, green, pink, blue,
turquoise and white on a white opaque ground.
Provenance: Collection of Frances Fairchild.
Diameter 3". $2500-3500
"The clusters of canes are sunk in what at first glance
appears to be a solid color ground of a peculiar opaque but fuzzy
white - like dense fog, or as someone aptly called it 'sodden
snow.'" -The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights.
"Clichy had been founded only in 1839. During the brilliant
but limited period of its independent existence, it excelled
repeatedly in taking up glass technological challenges, even
those which were beyond strict commercial needs. …(T)he
glass technological achievements characterize the Clichy glassworks
and its owners, who had tried to pioneer as Bontemps had done,
as capable of combining reserach and production, a daring task
of one without the secure commercial background which a big factory
offered. This general attitude of Clichy leads me to the assumption
that they might have been the first ones to offer convincing
paperweights." -Paperweights. |
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