19 May 2010
14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street
Fine Paperweights from the Collection of the late Baroness de Bellet
Back to auction 18358
Fine Paperweights from the Collection of the late Baroness de Bellet
Back to auction 18358
A fine and rare Clichy double-paperweight
circa 1850
The lower chequer paperweight of spaced canes including a central pink and green rose cane, divided by short latticinio tubes above a bed of upset muslin, supporting a smaller concentric mushroom tuft with central pink and green rose cane and a further row of pink and green rose canes, within a basket of green and white staves, 8.2cm diameter by 8.5cm high
The lower chequer paperweight of spaced canes including a central pink and green rose cane, divided by short latticinio tubes above a bed of upset muslin, supporting a smaller concentric mushroom tuft with central pink and green rose cane and a further row of pink and green rose canes, within a basket of green and white staves, 8.2cm diameter by 8.5cm high
Sold for
£67,200
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Literature:
Theresa Greenblatt, 'Hitherto Unpublished', Paperweight Collectors Association Bulletin (1980), p.40, figs.1 and 2
Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics
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