Lot 175
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A BACCARAT DATED CARPET-GROUND WEIGHT
A BACCARAT DATED CARPET-GROUND WEIGHT

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A BACCARAT DATED CARPET-GROUND WEIGHT
The clear glass set with assorted scattered brightly coloured millefiori canes, including animal silhouettes of a stag, a goat, a peahen, a cockerel, and a horse, dated on a single cane 'B 1848', set on a ground of red and white canes, some with blue star centers
2.5/8in. (6.6cm.) diam.; 1in. (4.4cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Geraldine J. Casper, Glass Paperweights of the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, New York, 1989, p. 23, pl. 123; Paul Hollister and Dwight Lanmon, Paperweights: "Flowers which clothe the meadows", New York, 1978, p. 126, pl. 18 and colour pl. p. 32.