MID 19TH CENTURY

Details

A Baccarat pink and green snake weight
Mid 19th Century
The opaque-pink coiled reptile with green mottled spine-markings and black eyes set in clear glass (slight chip to footrim)
3 in. (8.3 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Maba Collection, sale Sotheby's, 2 December 1963, lot 212.
Anon., sale Sotheby's, 3 May 1976, lot 278.
A 'serpent rose et vert' with additional decoration was one of the Baccarat weights shown in the 1849 Exhibition.