A ST. LOUIS SALAMANDER AND FROG WEIGHT, the two salamanders in shades of pink, dark-green and blue and pink, green, yellow and turquoise, flanking a crouching frog in green, yellow and black, with a torsade of pink and white entwined thread at the periphery and on a strawberry-cut base (very slight chips to edge of footrim), mid-19th century | Christie's

Lot 294

294

A ST. LOUIS SALAMANDER AND FROG WEIGHT, the two salamanders in shades of pink, dark-green and blue and pink, green, yellow and turquoise, flanking a crouching frog in green, yellow and black, with a torsade of pink and white entwined thread at the periphery and on a strawberry-cut base (very slight chips to edge of footrim), mid-19th century

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A ST. LOUIS SALAMANDER AND FROG WEIGHT, the two salamanders in shades of pink, dark-green and blue and pink, green, yellow and turquoise, flanking a crouching frog in green, yellow and black, with a torsade of pink and white entwined thread at the periphery and on a strawberry-cut base (very slight chips to edge of footrim), mid-19th century
8.2cm. diam.

Lot Essay

A grasshopper weight from this unusual group was sold in these Rooms on 18 November 1975, lot 100 and for other examples see Hollister/Lanmon, op. cit., p. 102, nos. 229, 230 and 231

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