A BACCARAT FACETED 'DUCKS IN THE POND' WEIGHT

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A BACCARAT FACETED 'DUCKS IN THE POND' WEIGHT
The hollow glass containing three ducks with pastel markings, cut with top and six circular side printies, set on a disc foot enclosing a ring of transparent green and white fleck glass near the periphery, large star-cut base
2.7/8in. (7.3cm.) diam.; 2in. (5.7cm.) high

Provenance

Anon. sale; Christie's, London, 11 February 1986, lot 65

Exhibited

London, Spink & Sons Limited, Exhibition, 1982, no. 15

Lot Essay

See Paul Hollister and Dwight P. Lanmon, Paperweights: "Flowers which clothe the meadows", New York, 1978, pl. 80, fig. 134 and colour pl. p. 103; and Geraldine J. Casper, Glass Paperweights of The Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, New York, p. 62, pl. 535