A BACCARAT FACETED CONCENTRIC MILLEFIORI MUSHROOM WEIGHT, the tuft with three circles of canes in pale shades of yellow, pink, green and white about a red, white and blue arrow's head centre and contained in a sheath of white star canes, within a torsade of white gauze entwined by cobalt-blue spiral threads beneath a mercury band, on a star-cut base, mid-19th century

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A BACCARAT FACETED CONCENTRIC MILLEFIORI MUSHROOM WEIGHT, the tuft with three circles of canes in pale shades of yellow, pink, green and white about a red, white and blue arrow's head centre and contained in a sheath of white star canes, within a torsade of white gauze entwined by cobalt-blue spiral threads beneath a mercury band, on a star-cut base, mid-19th century
7.5cm. diam.

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For the type see Hollister/Lanmon, Paperweights, p. 46, no. 23

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