A MASSIVE BACCARAT CLOSE MILLEFIORI GLASS NEWEL POST

SIGNED AND DATED B 1848

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A MASSIVE BACCARAT CLOSE MILLEFIORI GLASS NEWEL POST
Signed and dated B 1848
Comprising tightly packed brightly colored canes, including silhouettes of a cockerel, peahen, dog, horse, man, goat, deer, swan and butterfly among honeycomb, stars, arrowheads, trefoils, shamrocks and whorl canes, the stem set in a short metal circular socle mount
9¾ in. (24.8 cm.) high, 6 in. (15.3 cm.) diameter

Provenance

With Asprey, Ltd., London, 1989.
Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London, 2 March 1993, lot 140.

Literature

D. Battie and S. Cottle (ed.), Sotheby's Concise Encyclopedia of Glass, London, 1991, p. 137.
D. Tarshis, 'Objets Extraordinaires: French Tazze and Newel Post Finials, 1847-1860', PCA Bulletin, 1993-1994, pp. 24-29.

Exhibited

International Art Treasures Exhibition, Bath, England, 1973, no. 436 (exhibition label)
J.A. Bruhn, Designs in Miniature: The Story of Mosaic Glass, The Corning Museum of Glass, New York, 1995.
D. Tarshis, Objects of Fantasy: Glass Inclusions of the Nineteenth Century, The Corning Museum of Glass, New York, 2001, p. 8-9, no. 2.

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Lot Essay

The present example is approximately three times the size of the average close millefiori weight and presented extraordinary challenges to produce even for the august firm Baccarat. Their records indicate a production time of two years.

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