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A St. Louis encased white double overlay paperweight, circa 1850 image 1
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Lot 364*

A St. Louis encased white double overlay paperweight, circa 1850

11 July 2018, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A St. Louis encased white double overlay paperweight, circa 1850

The clear glass core set with a bouquet of four flowers, one simple red, one white and one blue lampwork flower placed alongside a single white cane on a bed of pointed green leaves, overlaid in white and cut through with oval panels, two cut with birds in flight and a leaping hare, the whole encased within a dome of clear glass, the underside of the base star-cut, 7.4cm diam, 5.5cm high

Footnotes

For a related example in Corning Museum see Hollister and Lanmon, 'Flowers which Clothe the Meadows' (1978), p.89, fig.211. Another encased double overlay weight was sold by Bonhams, 2 November 2015, Lot 57. In his catalogue no. 40, L H Selman exhibited an encased overlay weight in green also with two animal panels, and his catalogue describes the difficult manufacture of these weights. With the high risk of cracking during the extra processes involved, it is little wonder that so few encased overlay weights were created.

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