Lot 257
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A ST. LOUIS GARLANDED AVENTURINE-GROUND PINK DOUBLE-CLEMATIS WEIGHT, the flower with two rows of ribbed petals about a yellow and blue 'match head' centre, with a single green leaf showing behind and the stalk with two further leaves, set on a metallic olive-green ground with a torsade of white entwined latticinio thread at the periphery (bruise to one side and chip to footrim), mid-19th century

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A ST. LOUIS GARLANDED AVENTURINE-GROUND PINK DOUBLE-CLEMATIS WEIGHT, the flower with two rows of ribbed petals about a yellow and blue 'match head' centre, with a single green leaf showing behind and the stalk with two further leaves, set on a metallic olive-green ground with a torsade of white entwined latticinio thread at the periphery (bruise to one side and chip to footrim), mid-19th century
8cm. diam.
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Lot Essay

Cf. the example sold in our New York Rooms on 14 March 1985, lot 71 and the example without a torsade, sold in these Rooms on 11 February 1986, lot 79. See also Hollister/Lanmon, Paperweights, p. 69, no. 199

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