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Lot 207*

A rare Clichy white gentian spray paperweight, circa 1850

14 November 2018, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A rare Clichy white gentian spray paperweight, circa 1850

The clear glass set with a flat bouquet comprising six stylised flowers with pale white and blue striped petals and red cogwheel cane centres, together with two buds, arranged in a spray with lime-green striped leaves and a pointed stem, 7.2cm diam, 5.2cm high

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Provenance
Sotheby's sale, 11 May 1999, lot 168
The Late Countess Poulett Collection

For a related weight see Paul Hollister and Dwight Lanmon, Paperweights: Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows (1978), p.76, fig.143

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