ATTRIBUTED TO SAINT LOUIS, MID-19TH CENTURY

Extremely few examples of the present composition are known. The texts listed below illustrate the celebrated example formerly in the New York Historical Society Collection. See Paul Hollister, Glass Paperweights of the New-York Historical Society, New York, 1974, p. 65, colour plate 47; Paul Hollister and Dwight P. Lanmon, Paperweights, "Flowers which clothe the meadows", Corning, New York, 29 April - 21 October 1978, p. 80 and 150, colour fig. 202 - here it is noted that the authors know of only two others; and Paul Jokelson, One Hundred of the most important Paperweights, London, 1955, p. 18-19, colour plate 3. Also see Sotheby's 26 June 1990, lot 101 for a faceted example illustrated by Theresa Greenblatt, "The Langston Collection" Annual Bulletin of the Paperweight Collectors' Association, 1971, p. 6, fig. 7.