A SAINT LOUIS HEART WEIGHT

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A SAINT LOUIS HEART WEIGHT
The clear glass set with a heart composed of red, blue and white florettes enclosing three star-dust canes in white, lime-green and red and a central silhouette cane of a devil, surrounded by numerous pale-blue hollow canes lined in white with salmon-pink centers, with a garland of predominantly white canes at the periphery enclosing sections of white star canes with pale-blue centers, set on a dark-green translucent ground
3in. (7.6cm.) diam.; 2in. (5.1cm.) high

Provenance

London, Spink & Son Limited, Exhibtion, June 1982, no. 116

Lot Essay

Cf. Paul Hollister and Dwight P. Lanmon, Paperweights: "Flowers which clothe the meadows", 1978, p. 146, pl. 170 and colour pl. p. 35; and Paul Jokelson, One Hundred of the most important Paperweights, London, 1955, p. 134 & 135 pl. 59