A paperweight, Clichy red and white barber's pole
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A Clichy red and white barber's pole paperweight, mid 19th century
Set with a spaced arrangement of seventeen cogged and pastry-mould canes of widely varying size, set among lengths of red-and-white barber's pole forming a cobweb pattern, on a ground of white latticinio cable, 6.7cm diam, 4.9cm high (some surface abrasion)
Sold for £725 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • For a very similar example see Geraldine Casper, Glass Paperweights of the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum (1989), pl.25, fig. 477

Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics

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