Jim Peake
Head of Department
Lot 47
An exceptionally rare Clichy convolvulus paperweight, circa 1850
23 June 2021, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £10,200 inc. premium
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An exceptionally rare Clichy convolvulus paperweight, circa 1850
The white, faintly ribbed trumpet-shaped flower edged in bright yellow, on a delicately curling stem with a single large leaf, set on a spiralling white filigree cushion, 7.3cm diam, 5.3cm high
Footnotes
Also called a Morning Glory, this is one of the rarest of all single flower paperweights. Fewer than thirty examples by Clichy are recorded, either on a clear ground or on a filigree cushion, see Paul Dunlop, The Dictionary of Glass Paperweights (2009), p.102. A very similar example set with a pink and white convolvulus from the Baroness de Bellet Collection was sold by Bonhams on 19 May 2010, lot 140. Another is illustrated by Dunlop (2009), p.102, fig.123 and an example without a filigree cushion by Paul Hollister, The Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights (1969), p.139, fig.156.
