MID-19TH CENTURY

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A SAINT LOUIS FLOWER AVENTURINE GROUND WEIGHT*
MID-19TH CENTURY
The clear glass set with a white double-clematis composed of ten ridged white petals about a pink and green stamen cane center, growing from a curved green stem with two ridged leaves and a third about the flower, within a translucent-red and spiral latticinio thread torsade, on a translucent-green aventurine ground
3 1/8 in. (8 cm.) diameter; 2¼ in. (5.7 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

For a similar example see an anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 26 June 1996, lot 71; also see Geraldine J. Casper, Glass Paperweights of The Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Richmond, Virginia, 1989, p. 41 pl. 487 for a double-clematis flowerhead and torsade aventurine ground weight.

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