A rare Pantin cherries paperweight
A rare Pantin cherries paperweight, mid 19th century
Inset with four ripe and three unripe cherries, growing from a curved stem pendant from an ochre branch with four leaves, 7.8cm diameter by 5.2cm high
Sold for £19,800 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • Provenance:
    Roger Imbert Collection, Paris
    Property of a Swiss Collection, sold at Sotheby's, New York, 29 May 1992, lot 186

    A similar example is illustrated by Geraldine Casper, Glass Paperweights of the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum (1989), p.55, col.fig.157.

Category: Decorative Arts / Glass


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