Jim Peake
Head of Department
Lot 27
A very rare Bohemian close-packed millefiori piedouche paperweight from the workshop of Friedrich Egermann, Haida, circa 1845-48
23 June 2021, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,295 inc. premium
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A very rare Bohemian close-packed millefiori piedouche paperweight from the workshop of Friedrich Egermann, Haida, circa 1845-48
The central oversized red, green and white pastry-mould cane within an assortment of canes including six white rose canes, two distinctive red-and-white rose canes, and various colourful composite canes, surrounded by short lengths of red, white and blue spiral ribbon, all within a twisted 'Christmas ribbon' torsade in red, white and green and speckled with air bubbles, on a jasper pedestal base mottled in red, green, white and blue, tooled with an unusual scalloped footrim, 6.7cm diam, 6.4cm high
Footnotes
Egermann probably made millefiori paperweights between 1846 and 1848, see Peter von Brackel, Classic Paperweights from Silesia/Bohemia (2010), p.207. Three close-packed millefiori piedouche paperweights from the workshop of Friedrich Egermann are illustrated and discussed by Brackel (2010), pp.218-21, figs.444-9. Together with a millefiori letter seal discussed at p.217, these contain several distinctive rose and composite canes identical to those in the present lot. The jasper pedestal can be compared to the piedouche paperweight illustrated at p.220, fig.449, but the scalloped footrim on the present lot would appear to be unique.
