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Lot 203*

An exceptional Baccarat garlanded carpet-ground paperweight, circa 1850

14 November 2018, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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An exceptional Baccarat garlanded carpet-ground paperweight, circa 1850

The field of turquoise honeycomb canes set with alternate clusters of blue and red composite canes, each outlined by a ring of predominantly white canes and centred with a concentric arrangement of three rows of similar red, white and blue canes, 7.8cm diam, 5.5cm high

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Provenance
Sotheby's sale, 3 March 1992, lot 129
The Late Countess Poulett Collection

Illustrated by Lawrence Selman and Linda Pope-Selman, Paperweights for Collectors (1975), p.66, fig.150.

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