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Lot 189*

A Clichy double-overlay concentric millefiori mushroom paperweight, circa 1850

14 November 2018, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Clichy double-overlay concentric millefiori mushroom paperweight, circa 1850

The tuft with five circles of canes in shades of green, white, pink and dark cobalt blue and including five pink-and-green Clichy roses, the outer row formed of 'moss ground' canes, contained in a basket of alternate purple and white staves, overlaid in cobalt-blue on white and cut with a top window and five side panels or printies, on a petal and star-cut base, 7cm diam, 4.7cm high

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Provenance
Christie's sale, 17 November 1992, lot 258
The Late Countess Poulett Collection

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