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Lot 202*

A rare Baccarat green carpet-ground paperweight, dated 1848

14 November 2018, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A rare Baccarat green carpet-ground paperweight, dated 1848

The spaced arrangement of single canes pushed into a ground of closely packed pale-green and pink canes, the spaced canes including numerous Gridel silhouette canes of a flower, deer, goat, horse, cockerel, dog, bird and butterfly, together with the signature cane 'B 1848', 7.4cm diam, 5.3cm high

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Sotheby's sale, 3 March 1992, lot 132
The Late Countess Poulett Collection

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