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Lot 194*

A rare St. Louis flat bouquet paperweight, circa 1850

14 November 2018, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A rare St. Louis flat bouquet paperweight, circa 1850

Inset with a large central pelargonium flower with five deep cobalt blue petals around a yellow centre, within a circle of other various smaller flowers and buds in shades of orange, pink, white, blue and red, with assorted stems and leaves, star-cut base, 6.4cm diam, 4.7cm high

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Provenance
Sotheby's sale, 2 March 1993, lot 182
The Late Countess Poulett Collection

A St. Louis bouquet with a very similar composition is illustrated by Paul Dunlop, The Dictionary of Glass Paperweights (2009), P.62, fig.62. Another identical weight is illustrated by Lawrence Selman and Linda Pope-Selman, Paperweights for Collectors (1975), p.85, fig.190.

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