A CLICHY GARLANDED FRUIT AND POSY WEIGHT, the central bunch of dark-blue grapes surrounded by seven small florettes in shades of pale-green and white and including a pink rose and a pink and white rose resting on a slender stalk with eight opposing green leaves, set within a garland of six large turquoise canes divided by sets of four pink, white and green-centred claret canes, on a tossed muslin ground above a bed of horizontal latticinio cable (minute chip to footrim), mid-19th century | Christie's

Lot 292

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A CLICHY GARLANDED FRUIT AND POSY WEIGHT, the central bunch of dark-blue grapes surrounded by seven small florettes in shades of pale-green and white and including a pink rose and a pink and white rose resting on a slender stalk with eight opposing green leaves, set within a garland of six large turquoise canes divided by sets of four pink, white and green-centred claret canes, on a tossed muslin ground above a bed of horizontal latticinio cable (minute chip to footrim), mid-19th century

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A CLICHY GARLANDED FRUIT AND POSY WEIGHT, the central bunch of dark-blue grapes surrounded by seven small florettes in shades of pale-green and white and including a pink rose and a pink and white rose resting on a slender stalk with eight opposing green leaves, set within a garland of six large turquoise canes divided by sets of four pink, white and green-centred claret canes, on a tossed muslin ground above a bed of horizontal latticinio cable (minute chip to footrim), mid-19th century
7cm. diam.

Lot Essay

Another example of this rare type of weight, including two green pears, was sold in these Rooms on 25 June 1982, lot 154

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