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A good Clichy paperweight scent bottle and stopper, circa 1850 image 1
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A good Clichy paperweight scent bottle and stopper, circa 1850 image 3
Lot 169

A good Clichy paperweight scent bottle and stopper, circa 1850

18 May 2016, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £4,375 inc. premium

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A good Clichy paperweight scent bottle and stopper, circa 1850

The globular body in clear glass deeply cut with five raised oval printies between vertical flutes, the domed paperweight base set with a looped garland of different brightly coloured canes including one loop formed of pink and green 'Clichy Roses', the loops alternating with individual canes and the centre with a large green pastry-mould cane, all on a ground of latticinio cables laid side-by-side, the stopper with four similar cut printies and a simple concentric arrangement of canes around a pink and green rose centre, on further latticinio cables, 18.2cm high, both the stopper and the neck incised with numeral 14 (tiny chips) (2)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Sold by Sotheby's 5 May 1975, part of lot 188
The Léon Darnis Collection

Literature:
Illustrated by Maes and Dufrenne, La Cristallerie de Clichy (2005), p.386

A very similar example was sold by Bonhams 2 November 2015, lot 59. In his catalogue of Paperweights in the New York Historical Society, p.33, Paul Hollister discusses a similar bottle and comments that a scent bottle of virtually identical shape appears in The Illustrated Exhibitor published in conjunction with the Great Exhibition of 1851.

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