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Lot 91
Antique Bacchus concentric complex
millefiori paperweight, with
a white flower-shaped cane center, encircled by four rings of
canes, in blue, pink, red, and white, in a basket of green-lined
white staves.
Diameter 3 3/8". $3500-6500 |
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Lot 92
Antique English concentric millefiori
footed paperweight, with
a red, white, and yellow cane center, encircled by four rings
of canes, in blue, white, aqua, and pink, in a white and blue
stave basket. Unfinished pontil.
Diameter 3 1/2". $600-900 |
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Lot 93
Antique Whitefriars magnum, high-domed,
footed paperweight, with
concentric millefiori, in shades of pink, green, yellow, blue,
and white, around a pink-centered white cog cane, on a clear
footed base. Minor scratches on base.
Diameter 3 7/8". $750-900 |
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Lot 94
Antique English concentric high-domed
millefiori paperweight, with
a white and chartreuse cane center, encircled by four rings of
white canes, having blue, red, or pale yellow centers, and a
border of white rods.
Diameter 3 3/8". $700-900 |
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Lot 95
Antique Val St. Lambert sulphide magnum
paperweight, with a central
sulphide Christ figure, surrounded by a spaced ring of five blue
and pink complex canes, with red and white cross centers, on
pale blue ground ringed with a red and white, barber-pole, twisted
rod. The design is encased in a ruby flash overlay, with geometric
top facet and two rows of geometric side facets. A similar sulphide
of Joan of Arc from "probably the greatest of all Belgian
glassworks" is illustrated in color in The Encyclopedia
of Glass Paperweights (Col. Fig. 84). "These paperweights
do not turn up very often at European or American auctions; so
one must assume that, unless they are secreted in great numbers
in Belgian households, not very many were made." -Paul
Hollister.
Diameter 4 1/4". $2500-3000 |
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Lot 96
Antique Val St. Lambert scattered millefiori
faceted paperweight, with
a red pastry mold cane, surrounded by blue canes, and a red,
green, and white striped torsade, on pink marbled ground. Crowned
with a translucent cobalt blue overlay, having six and one facets
and fancy cutting.
Diameter 3 13/16". $2750-3500 |
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