Lot Essay
Cf. Paul Hollister and Dwight Lanmon, Paperweights: "Flowers which clothe the meadows", Corning, New York, 1978, p. 126 & 32 pl. 19
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Details
A BACCARAT DATED CARPET-GROUND WEIGHT
The clear glass set with assorted brightly coloured scattered millefiori canes, including silhouettes of a dog, a deer, a goat, and a cockerel, dated on a single cane 'B 1848', set on a ground of blue and white star-dust canes
2 7/8in. (7.3cm.) diam.
The clear glass set with assorted brightly coloured scattered millefiori canes, including silhouettes of a dog, a deer, a goat, and a cockerel, dated on a single cane 'B 1848', set on a ground of blue and white star-dust canes
2 7/8in. (7.3cm.) diam.
Provenance
King Farouk, The Palace Collection, Sotheby & Co., Cairo, Egypt, 27 March 1954, lot 121