A rare Clichy white gentian spray paperweight, circa 1850


The clear glass set with a flat bouquet comprising six stylised flowers with pale white and blue striped petals and red cogwheel cane centres, together with two buds, arranged in a spray with lime-green striped leaves and a pointed stem, 7.2cm diam, 5.2cm high
|ProvenanceSotheby's sale, 11 May 1999, lot 168The Late Countess Poulett CollectionFor a related weight see Paul Hollister and Dwight Lanmon, Paperweights: Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows (1978), p.76, fig.143