flowers. Like all Clichy flowers, they are flat.” — The
Encyclopedia o f Glass Paperweights, p. 136. Diameter 2 13/16".
$3000-8000
10. Antique Baccarat dated blue carpet ground with scat tered millefiori paperweight, composed of assorted complex canes, including Gridel silhouettes of a butterfly, dog, deer, goat and swan, and a “B 1848” signature/date cane, on a car pet of cobalt blue and white canes. The term “carpet” was first used to describe these weights in the Catalogue des Collections des Arts et Metiers (Paris, 1855). “Carpetgrounds, usually asso ciated with clustered paperweight designs, are among the most appealing foils for colored and silhouette canes.” — Paperweights: Flowers which clothe the meadows. “...The carpetgrounds most prized by connoisseurs are the tightly packed miniature canes in combinations of colors such as blue and white.” — Paperweights
and Other Glass Curiosities. Diameter 3 1/16".
9. Antique Clichy pansy and bud paperweight. The flower, composed of two, large, yellow-rimmed, dark purple upper petals, and three, smaller, pale yellow lower petals, grows on a stem with a purple bud and dark green leaves, over clear ground. An almost imperceptible green glass rod, commonly used to attribute this type of weight, can be seen in the center of the flower. “No two are more than superficially alike; some look like pansies, some look like the viola, some look just plain tipsy. Seldom seen alone, they are usually combined with other
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$12,000-16,000
11. Antique Bacchus pink and white carpet-ground paper weight, with a large white and green ruffle cane, encircled by a white collar, at the center of a carpet of dark pink and white ruffle canes, within a white stave basket. “Compared to the output of the French glass works of Clichy, Baccarat and St. Louis, the Bacchus production was very limited, possibly only four hundred or so in total.” — Old English Paperweights , p. 14. “Carpet grounds are quite rare from the Bacchus works and only three or four are known” — Old English Paperweights , p. 61 (also see similar, but white-carpeted piece pictured on p. 61). Diameter 3 9/16". $9000-12,000
Fall 2002