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A SAINT LOUIS 'SWAN' WEIGHT
The clear glass set with a white swan with black eyes and yellow bill with black markings afloat on a pale-blue pond with a grassy mound at one end, with a pale-pink and blue torsade at the edge, the base cut with diamond facets
3in. (7.6cm.) diam.; 1in. (4.4cm.) high
The clear glass set with a white swan with black eyes and yellow bill with black markings afloat on a pale-blue pond with a grassy mound at one end, with a pale-pink and blue torsade at the edge, the base cut with diamond facets
3in. (7.6cm.) diam.; 1in. (4.4cm.) high
Literature
See Paul Hollister and Dwight Lanmon, Paperweights: Flowers which clothe the meadows, New York, 1978, p. 153, pl. 229 and colour pl. p. 102; and Andrew Dohan, 'Cristalleries de Saint Louis De la Flamme a l'ame', Annual Bulletin of the Paperweight Collectors Association, Inc., 1997, p. 39, fig. 4.
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 29