A BACCARAT 'THOUSAND PETALLED' ROSE WEIGHT
A BACCARAT 'THOUSAND PETALLED' ROSE WEIGHT

MID-19TH CENTURY

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A BACCARAT 'THOUSAND PETALLED' ROSE WEIGHT
MID-19TH CENTURY
The garnet-red fully-blown rose, growing from a curved green stalk issuing six leaves and five further leaves about the flower, star-cut base
2½ in. (6.4 cm.) diameter; 1¾ in. (4.5 cm.) high

Lot Essay

See Paul Hollister and Dwight Lanmon, Paperweights: "Flowers which clothe the meadows", Corning, New York, 1978, p. 131, pl. 55 and colour pl. p. 81; compare Geraldine J. Casper, Glass Paperweights of the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Richmond, Virgina, 1989, p. 54, pl. 1139 for an example with a bud.

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