A BACCARAT FACETED GLASS GARLANDED PANSY WEIGHT

CIRCA 1850

Details

A BACCARAT FACETED GLASS GARLANDED PANSY WEIGHT
Circa 1850
The underside engraved, enameled and thinly encased with a pansy surrounded by a garland of forget-me-nots, cut with a top window and six side printies
3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Christie's, New York, 14 March 1985, lot 50.

Literature

PCA Bulletin, 1998 (cover illustration and frontispiece).

Exhibited

L. Kaplan (ed.), Presse-Papiers Français, Leo Kaplan Ltd., New York, 25 October 1986 and The Corning Museum of Glass, New York, May 1987, no. 54 (exhibition labels).

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Lot Essay

At the time of cataloguing, there are only three examples extant. For the other two rare examples of this composition, see P. Hollister, Jr., The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights, New York, 1969, col. pl. 4, fig. 22 and Evelyn Campbell Cloak, Glass Paperweights, London and New York, 1969.

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