A BACCARAT GENTIAN WEIGHT

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A BACCARAT GENTIAN WEIGHT
The clear glass set with three large pink ribbed blossoms lined with white, growing from conjoined green stalks with numerous leaves, star-cut base, Doheny Collection no. 40
3 1/8in. (8cm.) diam.; 2in. (5.1cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Henry Stern Collection, Christie's, New York, 24 September 1997, lot 188; Paul Hollister and Dwight Lanmon, Paperweights: "Flowers which clothe the meadows", Corning, New York, 1978, p. 71 and 131, pl. 59; and Paul Hollister, Glass Paperweights of the New-York Historical Society, New York 1974, p. 62, pl. 44

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