Lot Essay
This interesting set of weights is said to have been bought by the former owner of the Baccarat factory for his five children.
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A MARQUETRY BOX OF FIVE BACCARAT PANSY WEIGHTS
Each flower composed of two shaped purple petals with three bright-yellow petals with purple markings about a red and white cane center growing from a short curved green stalk with two leaves and three further leaves about the flower, cut with top and five circular side printies, star-cut base, each approximately 1.5/8in. (4.1cm.) diam.; 1in. (3.2cm.) high, set in a hand-made silk lined marquetry box, the top inlaid with three pansies (5)
Each flower composed of two shaped purple petals with three bright-yellow petals with purple markings about a red and white cane center growing from a short curved green stalk with two leaves and three further leaves about the flower, cut with top and five circular side printies, star-cut base, each approximately 1.5/8in. (4.1cm.) diam.; 1in. (3.2cm.) high, set in a hand-made silk lined marquetry box, the top inlaid with three pansies (5)
Provenance
Seora Dona Emilia Panella Gianinni sale; Sotheby & Co., London, 13 July 1964, lot 114
Anon. sale; Christie's, London, 20 November 1985, lot 377
Anon. sale; Christie's, London, 20 November 1985, lot 377