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A very rare Baccarat close-packed millefiori paperweight, dated 1848

1 December 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A very rare Baccarat close-packed millefiori paperweight, dated 1848

The tight arrangement of assorted brightly coloured canes including Gridel silhouettes of a pelican, a pheasant, lovebirds, a squirrel, a hunter or 'man with gun', and a cockerel, signed and dated with the cane 'B 1848', 7.6cm diam, 5.1cm high

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Provenance
Livingston Collection

The hunter or 'man with gun' is one of the rarest Gridel silhouettes, see Paul Dunlop, The Dictionary of Glass Paperweights (2009), pp.292-4. The lovebirds would appear to be the first Gridel silhouette made by Baccarat as it is the only one which appears in weights dated 1846, see Dunlop (2009), p.201.

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