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 Lot 9
Antique Clichy pansy and bud paperweight. The flower,
composed of two, large, yellow-rimmed, dark purple upper petals,
and three, smaller, pale yellow lower petals, grows on a stem
with a purple bud and dark green leaves, over clear ground. An
almost imperceptible green glass rod, commonly used to attribute
this type of weight, can be seen in the center of the flower.
"No two are more than superficially alike; some look
like pansies, some look like the viola, some look just plain
tipsy. Seldom seen alone, they are usually combined with other
flowers. Like all Clichy flowers, they are flat." -The
Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights, p. 136.
Diameter 2 15/16". $5000-8000 |
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 Lot 10
Antique Baccarat dated blue carpet ground with scattered
millefiori paperweight, composed of assorted complex canes,
including Gridel silhouettes of a butterfly, dog, deer, goat
and swan, and a "B 1848" signature/date cane, on a
carpet of cobalt blue and white canes. The term "carpet"
was first used to describe these weights in the Catalogue des
Collections des Arts et Metiers (Paris, 1855). "Carpetgrounds,
usually associated with clustered paperweight designs, are among
the most appealing foils for colored and silhouette canes."
-Paperweights: Flowers which clothe the meadows. "...The
carpetgrounds most prized by connoisseurs are the tightly packed
miniature canes in combinations of colors such as blue and white."
-Paperweights and Other Glass Curiosities.
Diameter 3 1/16". $12,000-16,000 |
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 Lot 11
Antique Bacchus pink and white carpet-ground paperweight,
with a large white and green ruffle cane, encircled by a
white collar, at the center of a carpet of dark pink and white
ruffle canes, within a white stave basket. "Compared
to the output of the French glass works of Clichy, Baccarat and
St. Louis, the Bacchus production was very limited, possibly
only four hundred or so in total." - Old English Paperweights,
p. 14. "Carpet grounds are quite rare from the Bacchus
works and only three or four are known" -Old English
Paperweights, p. 61 (also see similar, but white-carpeted piece
pictured on p. 61).
Diameter 3 9/16". $9000-12,000 |
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