A BACCARAT UPRIGHT BOUQUET WEIGHT

MID-19TH CENTURY

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A BACCARAT UPRIGHT BOUQUET WEIGHT
MID-19TH CENTURY
The bouquet composed of a central yellow bud surrounded by a pale-purple flower with a white stardust and red bull's-eye cane center, an opposing similar white flower, a translucent red and opaque white bud and an opposing similar translucent cobalt-blue bud, set amongst numerous shaded green leaves, within a torsade of white latticinio hollow tubing entwined with cobalt-blue threads between mercury bands, star-cut base
2¾ in. (7 cm.) diameter; 2 in. (5.1 cm.) high

Lot Essay

See Lawrence H. Selman, Linda Pope-Selman, Paperweights for Collectors, Santa Cruz, CA, 1975, p. 79 and p. 81, fig. 180 for a similarly composed example with these unusual red and blue clustered buds. Also for a similar example see, A Private Collection, Sotheby's, New York, 29 April 1998, lot 61.

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