A BACCARAT FACETED BOUQUET WEIGHT

MID-19TH CENTURY

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A BACCARAT FACETED BOUQUET WEIGHT
MID-19TH CENTURY
The bouquet composed of a central fully-blown garnet-red 'thousand petalled' rose and a bud, flanked by a white double clematis with a pale-yellow and red honeycomb center, surmounted by a large purple, garnet-red and yellow pansy with a similar cane center, growing from adjoining green stalks with numerous green leaves, cut with top and six side printies, star-cut base
3½ in. (8.8 cm.) diameter; 2 in. (5.1 cm.) high

Lot Essay

See Pat Reilly, Paperweights, London, 1994, p. 67 for a very similar weight noted as a superb example including particularly fine flowers. Also see an article by Dena K. Tarshis, Ambassadorial Weights on Paper, Annual Bulletin of the Paperweight Collectors Association, Inc., 1998, p. 11 and 12, fig. 4 for an illustration and drawing of a nearly identical bouquet weight formerly from the Arthur L. Kramer Collection and subsequently bequethed to The Corning Museum of Glass by the Hon. and Mrs. Amory Houghton.

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