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Lot 222*

Two St. Louis fruit and vegetable paperweights, circa 1850

14 November 2018, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£500 - £700

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Two St. Louis fruit and vegetable paperweights, circa 1850

One set with a green pear and two unripe pears with three cherries in a bed of leaves, on a filigree ground of spiralling latticinio threads, 6.8cm diam, 5.3cm high, the other with five root vegetables in white, mauve, pink, red and orange, each with a tuft of green foliage, on a filigree bed of spiralling threads, 6cm diam, 4.7cm high (2)

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Provenance
The vegetable weight Christie's sale, 4 June 1991, lot 293
The Late Countess Poulett Collection

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