A BACCARAT DATED CARPET GROUND WEIGHT

SIGNED AND DATED ON A SINGLE CANE 'B1848'

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A BACCARAT DATED CARPET GROUND WEIGHT
SIGNED AND DATED ON A SINGLE CANE 'B1848'
The clear glass set with assorted scattered brightly coloured millefiori canes, including animal silhouettes of a stag, a peahen, a horse, an elephant, a butterfly, a cockerel, and a monkey, set on a ground of red and white canes, some with blue star centers
3 in. (7.6 cm.) diameter; 2 in. (5.1 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare The Henry Stern Collection, Christie's, New York, 24 September 1997, lot 159; also see Geraldine J. Casper, Glass Paperweights of the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Richmond, Virginia, 1989, p. 23, pl. 123; and Paul Hollister and Dwight Lanmon, Paperweights: "Flowers which clothe the meadows", Corning, New York, 1978, p. 126, pl. 18 and colour pl. p. 32.

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