Lot Essay
Cf. the example sold in our New York Rooms on 14 March 1985, lot 128 and another from the Doheny Collection, Christie's sale on the premises, Camarillo, California, 4 February 1988, lot 670W
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A ST. LOUIS GREEN CARPET-GROUND CONCENTRIC MILLIEFIORI WEIGHT, the central silhouette of a devil within a circle of white and dark-blue canes surrounded by five silhouettes including two horses, two dancing girls and a dog, each enclosed by pink-centred white canes, set into a ground of closely packed green hollow crimped tubular canes, mid-19th century
6.8cm. diam.
6.8cm. diam.