MID 19TH CENTURY

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A CLICHY CORNUCOPIA FLAT BOUQUET WEIGHT
MID 19TH CENTURY
The pink cornucopia issuing a bouquet of a central blue flower with a red, white and yellow centre and six striped petals, flanked by two pink and white bell flowers, a blue bud behind, a pink stalk and a pink and white bud in the foreground, and ten green leaves (minute chip to side)
2 7/8 in. (7.5 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

There would appear to be very few examples of this type of weight extant. For the example from the Sinclair Collection, held by the New York Historical Society, and sold by them at Sotheby's, January 18th 1995, lot 116, see Paul Jokelson, One Hundred of the Most Important Paperweights (n.d.), p. 61, plate 38 and Paul Hollister, Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights (1969), figure 65. Another example is illustrated by Paul Hollister and Dwight P. Lanmon, Paperweights: Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows, Corning Museum of Glass, Exhibition (1978), p. 76. A third example is illustrated by Geraldine Casper, Glass Paperweights in the Art Institute of Chicago (1991), p. 62, cat no. 26. A fourth sold at Sotheby's, 21st February 1972, lot 154, and sold again later at Alan Tillman, Boston, 4th June 1977, lot 18, from the Prescott and Sally Dunbar Collection.

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