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A BACCARAT PANSY WEIGHT
The flower composed of two very large deep-purple and three smaller ochre petals with purple markings about a red and white cane center, growing from a long curved green stalk with a bud and numerous green leaves, three further leaves about the flower, with a band of narrow oval flutes above the base, 3 1/8in. (7.9cm.) diam.; together with a similar Dupont pansy weight, dated 1853/5, 2½in. (6.3cm.) diam. (2)
The flower composed of two very large deep-purple and three smaller ochre petals with purple markings about a red and white cane center, growing from a long curved green stalk with a bud and numerous green leaves, three further leaves about the flower, with a band of narrow oval flutes above the base, 3 1/8in. (7.9cm.) diam.; together with a similar Dupont pansy weight, dated 1853/5, 2½in. (6.3cm.) diam. (2)