Lot Essay
See Geraldine J. Casper, Glass Paperweights of The Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Richmond, Virginia, 1989, p. 42, fig. 76; also see, A Private Collection, Sotheby's, New York, 29 April 1998, lot 163.
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MID-19TH CENTURY
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A SAINT LOUIS DAHLIA WEIGHT
MID-19TH CENTURY
The flower composed of four rows of overlapping striated pink petals, about an ochre, blue and white millifiori cane center, resting on three conjoined leaves growing from a short stalk on the underside and three further leaf-tips about the flower, star-cut base
2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm.) diameter; 2¼ in. (5.7 cm.) high
MID-19TH CENTURY
The flower composed of four rows of overlapping striated pink petals, about an ochre, blue and white millifiori cane center, resting on three conjoined leaves growing from a short stalk on the underside and three further leaf-tips about the flower, star-cut base
2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm.) diameter; 2¼ in. (5.7 cm.) high