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 Lot 6
Antique Baccarat patterned millefiori shamrock and butterfly
paperweight, containing four rows of complex canes around
a central claret-colored cog cane. The center design is composed
of claret and white millefiori, including a ring of seven green
shamrocks framed in opaque white, with an outer circle of cobalt
blue, white and red arrowhead canes. A spaced garland of single
butterfly silhouette canes rings the edge, all of it resting
on tumbled, white latticinio. The six rarely seen shamrocks are
quite large, as are the butterfly or "moth" canes around
the perimeter. "These are weights of power and impact,
whose design must have taken considerable thought."
-The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights.
Diameter 3 1/16". $4000-5000 |
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 Lot 7
Antique Clichy quatrefoil garland colorground paperweight,
with four large pink roses. The design is composed of a central
pink, green and white complex pastry mold cane, surrounded by
four spaced pink and green "Clichy rose" canes, encircled
by a quatrefoil garland of red, green and white canes, with four,
spaced, white star/bull's-eye complex canes at the periphery,
on opaque blue ground. "Whether woven to celebrate love,
victory or merely beauty, the millefiori garlands found in patterned
spacing schemes are among the most graceful and delicate ornaments
found in paperweights." -Paperweights for Collectors.
Diameter 3 1/16". $7000-9000 |
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 Lot 8
Antique Clichy blue overlay millefiori mushroom paperweight,
with a concentric millefiori mushroom, containing one ring
of seven pink and green rose canes, and one ring of white rose
canes, alternating with blue cogs, in a white stave basket, over
grid-cut ground. Blue-over-white double overlay with five and
one facets. "In these weights a group of millefiori canes
is pulled into a 'tuft' that has an elongated stem and spreads
into a mushroom shape near the crown of the weight. The top of
the mushroom is usually in a close concentric or close packed
millefiori arrangement. Clichy mushrooms generally appear in
overlay weights, although there are some exceptions. In these
pieces the top facet is flat rather than concave and the base
is usually fancifully cut." -The Art of the Paperweight,
p. 88.
Diameter 3". $8000-10,000 |
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