A BACCARAT GARLANDED BUTTERFLY WEIGHT
A BACCARAT GARLANDED BUTTERFLY WEIGHT

Details
A BACCARAT GARLANDED BUTTERFLY WEIGHT
The insect composed of a deep purple body and antennae, pale-blue eyes and multi-coloured marbelized wings, with a garland of alternating green, red and white and white and red millefiori canes at the periphery, star-cut base
3in.. (7.6cm.) diam.
Provenance
King Farouk, The Palace Collection, Sotheby & Co., Cairo, Egypt, 27 March 1954, lot 244