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A SAINT LOUIS DATED MILLEFIORI SULPHIDE WEIGHT OF CHRIST
The clear glass set with six rows of assorted millefiori canes in shades of, blue, green, pink, claret and white, set with a central bust length sulphide portrait of Christ looking to dexter, dated on a single cane 'SL 1848', the outer rows forming a shallow basket of elongated shaded green and white crimped hollow canes
2in. (7cm.) diam.; 2in. (5.1cm.) high
The clear glass set with six rows of assorted millefiori canes in shades of, blue, green, pink, claret and white, set with a central bust length sulphide portrait of Christ looking to dexter, dated on a single cane 'SL 1848', the outer rows forming a shallow basket of elongated shaded green and white crimped hollow canes
2in. (7cm.) diam.; 2in. (5.1cm.) high
Provenance
Anon. sale; Christie's, London, 23 May 1989, lot 359
Literature
See Andrew Dohan, 'Cristalleries de Saint Louis De la Flamme a l'ame', Annual Bulletin of the Paperweight Collectors Association, Inc., 1977, p. 38, fig. 3.
Exhibited
Saint Louis, Muse de la Poste et la Boutique Saint Louis, Les Presse-Papiers des Cristalleries de Saint-Louis de 1845 nos jours - De la flamme l'me, 15 May - 13 July, 1996, Vitrine 20