Jim Peake
Head of Department
Lot 81*
A Baccarat blue carpet-ground paperweight, dated 1848
5 June 2019, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £8,812.50 inc. premium
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Fergus Gambon
Director
A Baccarat blue carpet-ground paperweight, dated 1848
The spaced arrangement of nineteen brightly coloured canes including Gridel silhouettes of a goat, a dog, a butterfly, a deer, a cockerel and a bird, set into a carpet ground of blue cane clusters with white centres, signed with the distinctive cane 'B 1848', 7.1cm diam, 5.1cm high
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Provenance
Christie's sale, 18 May 1999, lot 488
The Late Countess Poulett Collection
Illustrated by Patricia McCawley, Antique Glass Paperweights from France (1968), col. pl.2, fig.4a. A very similar, although larger example was sold by Bonhams 19 May 2010, lot 164.
