Lot 256
256
A ST. LOUIS FACETED UPRIGHT BOUQUET WEIGHT, the bouquet edged with green leaves and including a large white flower with yellow 'match head' centre surrounded by three gentian-type flowers in cobalt-blue and red and three florettes, set within a torsade with a white corkscrew core entwined by yellow latticinio thread between mercury bands, cut with a window and the fluted sides with graduated facets, mid-19th century

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A ST. LOUIS FACETED UPRIGHT BOUQUET WEIGHT, the bouquet edged with green leaves and including a large white flower with yellow 'match head' centre surrounded by three gentian-type flowers in cobalt-blue and red and three florettes, set within a torsade with a white corkscrew core entwined by yellow latticinio thread between mercury bands, cut with a window and the fluted sides with graduated facets, mid-19th century
7.5cm. diam.

Lot Essay

For other weights with yellow and white torsades see the example from the collection of the late Ambassador R. Henry Norweb, sold in our New York Rooms on 14 March 1985, lot 66 and Hollister/Lanmon, Paperweights, p. 88, no. 209

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