Jim Peake
Head of Department
Lot 52*
Three French millefiori paperweights, circa 1850
23 June 2021, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £408 inc. premium
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Three French millefiori paperweights, circa 1850
Comprising a Baccarat concentric weight, the central stardust cane within four rows of pastry-mould and cogwheel canes in red, white and blue, 6.5cm diam, 4.3cm high, a St. Louis patterned weight with a central red and white composite cane and five white canes within an outer garland of blue and pale green canes, 6.6cm diam, 4.7cm high, and a St. Mandé patterned magnum weight, of distinctive grey tint, with six looped garlands formed of opposing pairs of composite canes in aqua and coral, blue and white, and white, around an arrangement of green and blue canes, 8.9cm diam, 6.4cm high (3)
Footnotes
The aqua and coral canes in the magnum weight are colours characteristic of St. Mandé. Only a small number of weights were made by this factory and most of their millefiori examples are miniature, so it is rare to find a weight of this size, see Paul Dunlop, The Dictionary of Glass Paperweights (2009), pp.282-3.
