Lot Essay
Cf. The Fairchild Collection, Sotheby's, New York, 16 June 1999, lot 81
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19TH CENTURY
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A BACCARAT GARLANDED PANSY WEIGHT
19th century
The clear glass set with a large 'early' pansy, composed of two deep purple and yellow petals and three cobalt-blue petals with white markings about a central yellow star honeycomb cane, growing from a curved green stem, issuing a smaller red, white and blue blossom, a red bud, and two green leaves, a further seven leaves about the flower, within a garland of alternating red, green and white and red, blue, green and white millefiori canes at the periphery, star-cut base
31/8in. (8cm.) diam.; 2¼in. (5.7cm.) high
19th century
The clear glass set with a large 'early' pansy, composed of two deep purple and yellow petals and three cobalt-blue petals with white markings about a central yellow star honeycomb cane, growing from a curved green stem, issuing a smaller red, white and blue blossom, a red bud, and two green leaves, a further seven leaves about the flower, within a garland of alternating red, green and white and red, blue, green and white millefiori canes at the periphery, star-cut base
31/8in. (8cm.) diam.; 2¼in. (5.7cm.) high