A SAINT LOUIS FACETED DOUBLE-CLEMATIS OR DAHLIA WEIGHT

MID-19TH CENTURY

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A SAINT LOUIS FACETED DOUBLE-CLEMATIS OR DAHLIA WEIGHT
MID-19TH CENTURY
The flower composed of two rows of overlapping shaded blue ribbed petals about a yellow and salmon-pink central cane, growing from a curved green stalk with two leaves and three further leaves about the flower, set on a mound of swirling white latticinio threads, cut with six circular side printies
3¼ in. (8.4 cm.) diameter; 2½ in. (6.4 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare The Estelle Doheny Collection, Christie's, New York, 17 December 2001, lot 147; and Paul Hollister, Glass Paperweights of the New-York Historical Society, New York, 1974, p. 60, pl. 42 for a similar weight with dome and window faceting - here noted as 'faceting frequently used by Saint-Louis for this flower'.

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