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Lot 206*

A very rare Baccarat three-dimensional bell-flower paperweight, circa 1850

14 November 2018, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A very rare Baccarat three-dimensional bell-flower paperweight, circa 1850

The white flowers of ridged trumpet form with a ruffled edge, tilted open to reveal long yellow stamens, pendant from green stalks and various leaves, a white bud at the top, star-cut base, 7cm diam, 4.6cm high

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Provenance
Christie's sale, 18 May 1999, lot 521
The late Countess Poulett Collection

In his Dictionary of Glass Paperweights, p.52, Paul Dunlop identifies this as a type III bellflower, a considerable rarity with only a single example known to the author.

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