Lot Essay
See Geraldine J. Casper, Glass Paperweights of The Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, New York, 1989, p. 62, pl. 200 for a similar weight in red and pl. 473 for a similar weight of a galloping stallion.
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A BACCARAT FACETED GARLANDED HORSE WEIGHT
The clear glass set with an opaque white plaque decorated with an engraved blue horse trotting on a small blue grassy ground, with narrow blue rim, enclosed by a garland of alternating red and white and red, green and white millefiori canes, cut with top and six circular side printies
3.3/8in. (8.5cm.) diam.; 2in. (5.7cm.) high
The clear glass set with an opaque white plaque decorated with an engraved blue horse trotting on a small blue grassy ground, with narrow blue rim, enclosed by a garland of alternating red and white and red, green and white millefiori canes, cut with top and six circular side printies
3.3/8in. (8.5cm.) diam.; 2in. (5.7cm.) high
Provenance
N.F. Robinson, Birmingham, England, 17 July 1987
Exhibited
London, Spink & Sons Limited, Exhibition, 1986, no. 60