Lot 203
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A ST. LOUIS GREEN CARPET-GROUND CONCENTRIC MILLEFIORI WEIGHT, the central setup in shades of blue, pink and white surrounded by five silhouettes including a camel, a dancing devil, a dancing girl, a monkey and a dog, each enclosed by two circles of canes in shades of pale-pink and white, set into a ground of closely packed green hollow crimped tubular canes, mid-19th century

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A ST. LOUIS GREEN CARPET-GROUND CONCENTRIC MILLEFIORI WEIGHT, the central setup in shades of blue, pink and white surrounded by five silhouettes including a camel, a dancing devil, a dancing girl, a monkey and a dog, each enclosed by two circles of canes in shades of pale-pink and white, set into a ground of closely packed green hollow crimped tubular canes, mid-19th century
6.5cm. diam.

Lot Essay

Cf. the examples sold in our New York Rooms on 14 March 1985, lot 128; the Doheny Collection, Christie's sale on the premises, Camarillo, California, 4 February 1988, lot 670W and in these Rooms on 17 November 1992, lot 261

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