A very rare and highly-characteristic Baccarat 'Three Ducks in a Pond' paperweight, circa 1850


The clear glass with a hollow centre containing three lampwork ducks, their feathers striped in different colours, swimming on a clear glass pond encircled by translucent green moss speckled in white, cut with a large top window and six side printies, the underside of the applied base star-cut, 8.1cm diam, 5.6cm high
|ProvenanceSotheby's sale, 2 March 1993, lot 181The Late Countess Poulett CollectionA very similar example featuring three ducks is illustrated by Paul Dunlop, The Dictionary of Glass Paperweights (2009), P.127, fig.183. See also Paul Hollister and Dwight Lanmon, Paperweights: Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows (1978), p.103, fig.80