SIGNED AND DATED B 1848

Details

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.