A Baccarat blue carpet-ground paperweight, dated 1848


The spaced arrangement of nineteen brightly coloured canes including Gridel silhouettes of a goat, a dog, a butterfly, a deer, a cockerel and a bird, set into a carpet ground of blue cane clusters with white centres, signed with the distinctive cane 'B 1848', 7.1cm diam, 5.1cm high
|ProvenanceChristie's sale, 18 May 1999, lot 488The Late Countess Poulett CollectionIllustrated by Patricia McCawley, Antique Glass Paperweights from France (1968), col. pl.2, fig.4a. A very similar, although larger example was sold by Bonhams 19 May 2010, lot 164.