拍品 26
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A SAINT LOUIS FACETED BOUQUET GARLAND WEIGHT
A SAINT LOUIS FACETED BOUQUET GARLAND WEIGHT

MID-19TH CENTURY

細節
A SAINT LOUIS FACETED BOUQUET GARLAND WEIGHT
MID-19TH CENTURY
The clear glass set a central white double clematis resting on four pale-green leaf-tips, within a garland composed of five assorted cane centered clematis-type flowers in shades of cobalt-blue, salmon-pink, ochre and white resting on adjoining paired green leaf-tips, cut with a concave top window and three rows of geometric side printies
2½ in. (6.3 cm.) diameter; 1½ in. (3.8 cm.) high

拍品專文

Compare The Estelle Doheny Collection, Christie's, New York, 17 December 2001, lot 80; See Paul Hollister, The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights, New York, 1969, p. 103, figs. 97-98; also see Geraldine J. Casper, Glass Paperweights of The Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Richmond, Virginia, 1989, p. 52, fig. 202 for a similarly faceted example. Here the author notes, "that the deep top punty indicates possible use as a wafer tray."