Lot Essay
Cf. Geraldine J. Casper, Glass Paperweights of The Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Richmond, Virginia, 1989, p. 22 pl. 480
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Details
A BACCARAT CARPET-GROUND WEIGHT
The six alternating coral and blue millefiori panels edged in blue and white canes enclosing a central cluster of similarly coloured canes enclosed by a garland of predominately white canes with coral coloured designs with a white star center, forming a large stylized flowerhead, set on a blue and white carpet-ground, star-cut base
3¼in. (8.2cm.) diam.
The six alternating coral and blue millefiori panels edged in blue and white canes enclosing a central cluster of similarly coloured canes enclosed by a garland of predominately white canes with coral coloured designs with a white star center, forming a large stylized flowerhead, set on a blue and white carpet-ground, star-cut base
3¼in. (8.2cm.) diam.
Provenance
Applewhaite-Abbott Collection, Part I, Sotheby & Co. London, 1 July 1952, lot 188