Lot Essay
See Paul Hollister and Dwight Lanmon, Paperweights: "Flowers which clothe the meadows", Corning, New York, 1978, p. 69 and 149, pl. 200 for a faceted example without a pedestal.
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Details
A SAINT LOUIS PEDESTAL CAMOMILE WEIGHT
The flower composed of numerous rows of fluffy white recessed petals with a pale-yellow cane center, growing from a green stalk with two green leaves with two further leaves and a white bud about the flower, set on a translucent pink pedestal base
3 1/8in. (7.9cm.) high
The flower composed of numerous rows of fluffy white recessed petals with a pale-yellow cane center, growing from a green stalk with two green leaves with two further leaves and a white bud about the flower, set on a translucent pink pedestal base
3 1/8in. (7.9cm.) high
Provenance
King Farouk, The Palace Collection, Sotheby & Co., Cairo, Egypt, 27 March 1954, lot 57