A BACCARAT FACETED DARK-BLUE DOUBLE-OVERLAY PATTERNED MILLEFIORI WEIGHT, the central setup including a butterfly surrounded by a circle of green-centred white star canes, set within two interlocking trefoil garlands in shades of claret and white and blue, each loop enclosing a single silhouette cane including a cockerel, a pelican, a pigeon, a deer, a dog and a goat, overlaid in dark-blue on white and cut with a window and six printies, on a star-cut base (one printy with extensive chip, chips to edges of three further printies and to window), mid-19th century | Christie's

Lot 224

224

A BACCARAT FACETED DARK-BLUE DOUBLE-OVERLAY PATTERNED MILLEFIORI WEIGHT, the central setup including a butterfly surrounded by a circle of green-centred white star canes, set within two interlocking trefoil garlands in shades of claret and white and blue, each loop enclosing a single silhouette cane including a cockerel, a pelican, a pigeon, a deer, a dog and a goat, overlaid in dark-blue on white and cut with a window and six printies, on a star-cut base (one printy with extensive chip, chips to edges of three further printies and to window), mid-19th century

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A BACCARAT FACETED DARK-BLUE DOUBLE-OVERLAY PATTERNED MILLEFIORI WEIGHT, the central setup including a butterfly surrounded by a circle of green-centred white star canes, set within two interlocking trefoil garlands in shades of claret and white and blue, each loop enclosing a single silhouette cane including a cockerel, a pelican, a pigeon, a deer, a dog and a goat, overlaid in dark-blue on white and cut with a window and six printies, on a star-cut base (one printy with extensive chip, chips to edges of three further printies and to window), mid-19th century
8cm. diam.

Lot Essay

Cf. the example sold in these Rooms on 11 February 1986, lot 56; Evelyn Campbell Cloak, Glass Paperweights, pl. 1, no. 106 and Patricia McCawley, Antique Glass Paperweights from France, pl. 10, no. 80(a)

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