Sale 1471
New York
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1 October 2004
Price realised
USD 1,554
Estimate
This lot is offered without a reserve
TWO NEW ENGLAND MILLEFIORI WEIGHTS* MID-19TH CENTURY The first a radiating patterned millefiori weight including silhouettes of four running rabbits and four bees on a mound of swirling white latticinio threads, 2¾ in. (7 cm.) diameter; 1¾ in. (4.5 cm.) high; the second a cruciform millefiori weight including twenty silhouettes of running rabbits on a similar latticinio ground, 3 in. (7.7. cm.) diameter; 2 1/8 in. (5.5 cm.) high (2)
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