Lot Essay
Cf. the example sold in our South Kensington Rooms on 26 November 1992, lot 100 and the example sold in these Rooms on 29 June 1993, lot 202
Details
A BACCARAT CARPET-GROUND WEIGHT
Mid-19th century
The central cane including a butterfly silhouette surrounded by two almost concentric circles of canes including silhouettes of a dog, a horse, a deer, an elephant, a cockerel, a pelican and a pigeon set into a ground of closely packed red-centred white star canes (bruise to side and slight bruise to top, surface wear)
3 1/8in. (8cm.) diam.
Mid-19th century
The central cane including a butterfly silhouette surrounded by two almost concentric circles of canes including silhouettes of a dog, a horse, a deer, an elephant, a cockerel, a pelican and a pigeon set into a ground of closely packed red-centred white star canes (bruise to side and slight bruise to top, surface wear)
3 1/8in. (8cm.) diam.