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A very rare Bacchus patterned millefiori 'sodden snow' ground paperweight, circa 1850

Fine Glass, Paperweights and British Ceramics
1 December 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A very rare Bacchus patterned millefiori 'sodden snow' ground paperweight, circa 1850

The distinctive canes in various sizes, set with two pairs of opposing cane clusters framed within opaque white 'sodden snow' borders, two with a row of red and white pastry mould canes around a central oversized cane, two with a row of yellow composite canes around a central green oak leaf silhouette cane, the clusters divided by a row of six red and white pastry mould canes flanked by a pair of yellow canes, all set within a ground of blue and white cogged canes and an outer row of tubular staves, 8cm diam, 5.6cm high

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With Sweetbriar Gallery, 25 April 2008
Livingston Collection

Paperweights with 'sodden snow' grounds are amongst the rarest produced by Bacchus. The techniques involved in the encasing process would have been incredibly challenging, hence their rarity. The central feature has been packed with a handful of smaller canes to prevent the design from moving prior to encasing. A similar patterned millefiori 'sodden snow' example was sold by Christie's in New York on 26 September 2007, lot 646. See also the examples illustrated by Robert G Hall, Old English Paperweights (1998), p.53.

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