Lot Essay
Cf. the similarly dated example sold in our South Kensington Rooms on 26 November 1992, lot 100, and the two undated examples sold in these Rooms on 29 June 1993, lot 202 and 18 December 1995, lot 226.
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1848
Details
A Baccarat dated carpet-ground weight
1848
The central cane with a butterfly silhouette surrounded by three circles of space canes including silhouettes of a horse, a cockerel, a dog, an elephant, a goat, a deer and a cane inscribed B 1848, set into a ground of closely packed red-centred white star dust canes (very slight bruising near footrim)
3 in. (7.5 cm.) diam.
1848
The central cane with a butterfly silhouette surrounded by three circles of space canes including silhouettes of a horse, a cockerel, a dog, an elephant, a goat, a deer and a cane inscribed B 1848, set into a ground of closely packed red-centred white star dust canes (very slight bruising near footrim)
3 in. (7.5 cm.) diam.
Literature
cf. the similarly dated example sold in our South Kensington Rooms on 26 November 1992, lot 100, and the two undated examples sold in these Rooms on 29 June 1993, lot 202 and 18 December 1995, lot 226