POSSIBLY BY THE IMPERIAL GLASS FACTORY, ST. PETERSBURG, 19TH CENTURY

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A RUSSIAN FACETED COLOR GROUND BOUQUET WEIGHT
Possibly by the Imperial Glass Factory, St. Petersburg, 19th century
The slightly grey glass set with a pink and white ribbon-tied bouquet, the center with a striated blue and white petalled flower with pink stamen enclosed by six smaller cobalt-blue dahlias resting on green sepals and growing from five green stems, the periphery with a surround of clematis-inspired flowers including four pink and yellow blossoms, two striated blue and yellow blossoms with pink stamen, and a striated pink and white blossom with black tips, all resting on green sepals, above an opaque white ground, the top cut with a decagonal window and ten side facets, on a short duodecagonal pedestal base
3 1/8 in. (8 cm.) diameter; 2 in. (5 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

See Larry Selman, 'Russian Floral Paperweights', The Annual Bulletin of the Paperweight Collectors Association, Inc. 2002, p. 5-8, for an article reattributing similar works to the Russian Imperial Glass Factory. 'Until recently, these glass floral works were thought to have been products of the Mount Washington Glass Works in New Bedford Massachusetts. Dwight Lamnon, former Director of Winterthur Museum and The Corning Museum of Glass, found fragments of paperweights containing the same style of glasswork in the archives of the Imperial Glass Factory and the Hermitage located in St. Petersburg.'

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