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A BACCARAT BUTTERFLY AND FLOWER WEIGHT
The insect with purple translucent body, multi-coloured marbelized wings, dark blue head and antennae, hovering near a large white double clematis-type flower with a central green, white, red and yellow pastry-mould cane, growing from a short green stalk with three green leaves and a white bud and five further leaves about the flower
2¾in. (7cm.) diam.
The insect with purple translucent body, multi-coloured marbelized wings, dark blue head and antennae, hovering near a large white double clematis-type flower with a central green, white, red and yellow pastry-mould cane, growing from a short green stalk with three green leaves and a white bud and five further leaves about the flower
2¾in. (7cm.) diam.
Provenance
King Farouk, The Palace Collection, Sotheby's & Co., Cairo, Egypt, 27 March 1954, lot 242