A BACCARAT DATED CARPET-GROUND WEIGHT

SIGNED AND DATED ON A SINGLE CANE 'B 1848'

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A BACCARAT DATED CARPET-GROUND WEIGHT
Signed and dated on a single cane 'B 1848'
The clear glass set with assorted scattered millefiori canes including silhouettes of a dog, a goat, a pigeon, two butterflies, a cockerel, a stag, a swan and a monkey, set on a ground of blue and white star-dust canes
2¾in. (7cm.) diam.; 2in. (5.1cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. The Stern Collection, Christie's, New York, 24 September 1997, lot 161; also see The Fairchild Collection, Sotheby's, New York, 16 June 1999, lot 56; and Paul Hollister and Dwight Lanmon, Paperweights: "Flowers which clothe the meadows", Corning, New York, 1978, p. 126 and 32 pl. 19

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