Sale 2374
New York
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11 June 2010
Price realised
USD 5,250
Estimate
This lot is offered without a reserve
A BACCARAT GLASS SIGNED AND DATED SPACED MILLEFIORI WEIGHT AND A BACCARAT MUSHROOM WEIGHT The first signed and dated on a single cane 'B 1848' The spaced weight set with brightly colored canes including silhouettes of a horse, deer, dog, pheasant, squirrel, pelican, flower, swan, goat and cockerel set amongst short lengths of latticinio tubing and colored ribbon; the mushroom weight with a tuft formed of tightly-packed multi-colored canes, including a shamrock cane, within a torsade of hollow white latticinio tubing entwined with cobalt-blue thread edged by mercury bands, star-cut base 3 in. (7.8 cm.) diameter, both (2)
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