A BACCARAT BOUQUET WEIGHT

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A BACCARAT BOUQUET WEIGHT
The bouquet composed of a central shaded salmon-pink thousand petalled rose and a bud, flanked by a yellow wheatflower with a cobalt-blue, white and red center and a small blue and white primrose with red and white cane center, surmounted by a large purple and yellow pansy with a similarly coloured cane center, growing from crossed green stalks with numerous green leaves, star-cut base
2.5/8in. (6.6cm.) diam.; 1.7/8in. (4.8cm.) high

Exhibited

London, Spink & Sons Limited, Exhibition, 1982, no. 46

Lot Essay

See Geraldine J. Casper, Glass Paperweights of The Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, New York, 1989, p. 49, pl. 135; and Paul Hollister and Dwight Lanmon, Paperweights: "Flowers which clothe the meadows", New York, 1978, p. 132, pl. 64 and colour pl. p. 75.