An exceptional Baccarat garlanded carpet-ground paperweight, circa 1850


The field of turquoise honeycomb canes set with alternate clusters of blue and red composite canes, each outlined by a ring of predominantly white canes and centred with a concentric arrangement of three rows of similar red, white and blue canes, 7.8cm diam, 5.5cm high
|ProvenanceSotheby's sale, 3 March 1992, lot 129The Late Countess Poulett CollectionIllustrated by Lawrence Selman and Linda Pope-Selman, Paperweights for Collectors (1975), p.66, fig.150.