Jim Peake
Head of Department
Lot 87*
Two Baccarat flower paperweights and two St. Louis fruit and vegetable weights, circa 1850
5 June 2019, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £3,187.50 inc. premium
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Fergus Gambon
Director
Two Baccarat flower paperweights and two St. Louis fruit and vegetable weights, circa 1850
Comprising a Baccarat pansy weight with purple and yellow-ochre petals with a stardust centre, with a yellow and purple bud, star-cut base, 6.2cm diam, 4.6cm high, a white double-clematis weight with twelve ribbed petals about a pink and white star centre, star-cut base, 6.6cm diam, 4.6cm high, a St. Louis fruit weight with a green pear and two unripe pears with three cherries in a bed of leaves, on a filigree ground of spiralling latticinio threads, 6.8cm diam, 5.3cm high, and another weight with five root vegetables in white, mauve, pink, red and orange, each with a tuft of green foliage, on a filigree bed of spiralling threads, 6cm diam, 4.7cm high (4)
Footnotes
Provenance
The double-clematis and the vegetable weight both from Christie's sale, 4 June 1991, lots 314 and 293
The Late Countess Poulett Collection
