A BACCARAT GENTIAN WEIGHT
The clear glass set with three striated coral flowers edged in white growing from a long green stalk with numerous green leaves, surmounted by a deep coral bud, star-cut base
2¾in. (7cm.) diam.
Provenance
Cross Collection, Part I, White Plains, New York, 7 June 1960, lot 897
Lot Essay
See Paul Hollister and Dwight Lanmon, Paperweights: "Flowers which clothe the meadows", Corning, New York, 1978, p. 71 and 131, pl. 59