A BACCARAT FLOWER WEIGHT

Details

A BACCARAT FLOWER WEIGHT
The clear glass set with a large primrose-type flower composed of six opaque white petals lined in cobalt-blue with deep-purple shading about a white and pale-green cane center, growing from a curved green stalk with six green leaves and five further leaves about the flower, star-cut base
2in. (7cm.) diam.; 1.7/8in. (4.8cm.) high

Provenance

Anon. sale; Christie's, London, 24 November 1987, lot 393

Lot Essay

Cf. Geraldine J. Casper, Glass Paperweights of the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, New York, 1989, p. 51, pl. 892; Paul Hollister and Dwight Lanmon, Paperweights: "Flowers which clothe the meadows", New York, 1978, p. 130, pl. 49 and colour pl. p. 63