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Lot 28*

A rare Silesian spaced millefiori magnum paperweight from the Josephinehütte Glassworks, Schreiberhau, circa 1850-70

23 June 2021, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £2,422.50 inc. premium

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A rare Silesian spaced millefiori magnum paperweight from the Josephinehütte Glassworks, Schreiberhau, circa 1850-70

The assorted brightly coloured canes including silhouettes of a red devil, a butterfly, three 'fat foals', two 'slender monkeys', a hare, and an eagle, together with an extremely rare composite cane framed by miniature silhouettes of three 'fat foals', two 'slender monkeys', and three 'slender foals', all on an upset muslin cushion interwoven with lengths of coloured latticinio ribbon, 8.8cm diam, 6cm high

Footnotes

For a discussion and identification of the silhouettes, including the rare composite silhouette cane, see Peter von Brackel, Classic Paperweights from Silesia/Bohemia (2010), pp.66-71.

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