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A St. Louis overlay paperweight baguier, circa 1850

British and European Ceramics and Glass

18 May 2016, 10:30 BST

London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £5,000 inc. premium

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A St. Louis overlay paperweight baguier, circa 1850

The small tazza overlaid in pale ruby and cut with ten 'windows', the rim with a twisted green, red and white ribbon, raised on a six-sided baluster stem and a crown paperweight base, the finely-constructed weight containing lengths of white latticinio alternating with pairs of 'tricolore' ribbons, a yellow composite cane at the centre, 15.2cm high, the paperweight 7.3cm diam

Footnotes

Provenance:
Sold by Roger Imbert, 1973
The Léon Darnis Collection

Literature:
Illustrated by Léon Darnis, Baguiers et Verres a Boire, p.73, fig.81

Exhibited:
De la Flamme à l'âme, Les Presse-Papiers des Cristalleries de Saint-Louis, Musée de la poste 1996, vitrine 58

An example in a different colourway of blue and yellow was shown in the Objects of Fantasy: exhibition, Corning Museum of Glass May-October 2001, cat. p.78, no.42, there described as one of only two known examples.

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