Lot Essay
Cf. Paul Jokelson, Antique French Paperweights, Newark, New Jersey, 1955, p. 57, pl. B67.
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The clear glass set with assorted millefiori canes, including animal silhouettes of an elephant, a cockerel, a goat, a stag, a dog, a horse, and two butterfly canes, dated on a single cane 'B 1848', set on a ground of pale-lavender and pale-yellow choufleur canes
3.1/8in. (7.9cm.) diam.; 1.7/8in. (4.8cm.) high
The clear glass set with assorted millefiori canes, including animal silhouettes of an elephant, a cockerel, a goat, a stag, a dog, a horse, and two butterfly canes, dated on a single cane 'B 1848', set on a ground of pale-lavender and pale-yellow choufleur canes
3.1/8in. (7.9cm.) diam.; 1.7/8in. (4.8cm.) high