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A very fine Baccarat 'bouquet-de-marriage' mushroom paperweight, circa 1850 image 1
A very fine Baccarat 'bouquet-de-marriage' mushroom paperweight, circa 1850 image 2
Lot 390*

A very fine Baccarat 'bouquet-de-marriage' mushroom paperweight, circa 1850

11 July 2018, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A very fine Baccarat 'bouquet-de-marriage' mushroom paperweight, circa 1850

The neat tuft formed from a carpet of white stardust canes each with a green centre, the centre of the dome set with an arrowhead cane in red, white and blue, within a spiral torsade of white latticinio gauze encircled by cobalt blue threads, star cut base, 7.2cm diam, 5cm high

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The term bouquet-de-marriage is occasionally used for all mushroom paperweights but more specifically a marriage bouquet should be composed of white canes only. Examples of true bouquet-de-marriage weights are seldom found.

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