A SAINT LOUIS THREE-COLOUR CROWN WEIGHT

MID 19TH CENTURY

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A SAINT LOUIS THREE-COLOUR CROWN WEIGHT
Mid 19th century
The clear hollow glass set with yellow aventurine-fleck twisted ribbons and green and red twisted ribbons, each edged in white, alternating with twisted latticinio ribbons and threads radiating from a central star-dust composite cane in white, cobalt-blue and salmon-pink
2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm.) diameter; 2¼ in. (5.7 cm.) high

Lot Essay

For an example with aventurine ribbons and listed as a great rarity see Paul Hollister, Glass Paperweights of the New-York Historical Society, New York, 1974, p. 49, pl. 31; Also see Paul Hollister and Dwight Lanmon, Paperweights: "Flowers which clothe the meadows", New York, 1978, p. 148, pl. 185 and colour pl. p. 56.

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