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Lot 436*

A rare Clichy paperweight plaque, circa 1850

11 July 2018, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £750 inc. premium

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A rare Clichy paperweight plaque, circa 1850

Of rectangular form in clear glass applied with a central oval encasing a stylised flower spray composed of overlapping white petals flanked by several leaves and a small bud, the edges bevelled and serrated, 9.5cm x 6.7cm, 2.9cm high overall

Footnotes

An almost identical paperweight plaque was sold by Bonhams on 20 May 2015, lot 77 and another by Sotheby's London, 15 December 2003, lot 213. Another from the Robert Imbert collection was sold by Sotheby's New York, 29 May 1992, lot 147. A comparable Clichy plaque paperweight, but in opaline glass and with a pink flower, is illustrated by Geraldine Casper, Glass Paperweights of the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum (1989), p. 63, cat. 183. Compare also with the paperweight sold by Bonhams, 15 November 2006, lot 192.

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