•54. Antique Baccarat cobalt blue dogrose paperweight, the flower, with white-rimmed, heart-shaped petals around a red and white stardust/bulfs-eye cane, on a stalk with emerald leaves on clear ground. Diameter 3 1/16". $1500-2500
•57. Antique Saint Louis miniature white pompon paper weight, the flower, with feathered white petals around slender pale yellow stamen, on a stalk with a white bud and crimped green leaves, set in clear crystal. Provenance: Collection of Warren Abrams. Diameter 1 7/8". $1100-1500
•55. Very good antique Baccarat white double clematis paperweight, the flower, with a double tier of ridged petals, around a red and white stardust/bulls-eye cane, on a stalk with emerald leaves, floats on a star-cut ground. See The Art o f the Paperweight , pp. 93-94; The Encyclopedia o f Glass Paperweights, p. 65. Diameter 3". $2000-3000
•58. Antique Baccarat anemone paperweight, the petals, with pointed blue tips and ridged white loops, around a red and white stardust/bulls-eye cane, on a stalk with emerald green leaves. Star-cut base. Diameter 2 7/16". $1500-3000
•56. Antique Baccarat clematis buds paperweight, contain ing five, pale-blue, clematis buds, with green sepals, on stems with emerald leaves. The arrangement floats over star-cut ground in a crystal dome. Diameter 2 13/16". $2000-3000
59. Antique Baccarat pansy paperweight, the flower, with deep-purple upper petals and black-striped purple and yellow lower petals, around a red and white stardust/bulfs-eye cane, on a stalk with a yellow and purple bud and emerald green leaves, over a star-cut ground. Diameter 3". $600-900
“Some large and often handsome clematis weights are com posed entirely of buds arranged symmetrically in tiers on long stems.” — The Encyclopedia o f Glass Paperweights.
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