A CONTINENTAL FRUIT WEIGHT

PROBABLY FRENCH, MID-19TH CENTURY

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A CONTINENTAL FRUIT WEIGHT
PROBABLY FRENCH, MID-19TH CENTURY
The clear glass set with a shaded peach hanging from a green stem with two translucent shaded green leaves and a third about the fruit
2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm.) diameter; 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm.) high

Lot Essay

See Paul Hollister and Dwight Lanmon, Paperweights: "Flowers which clothe the meadows", New York, 1978, p. 165, pl. 303 and colour pl. p. 95. Fruit weights of this type have been traditionally attributed to Saint Louis, however the cited example and the present lot both have a cloudy, pale-lavender florescence which is not 'typical' of this factory, but is 'typical' of Baccarat.

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