Two St. Louis fruit and vegetable paperweights, circa 1850


One set with a green pear and two unripe pears with three cherries in a bed of leaves, on a filigree ground of spiralling latticinio threads, 6.8cm diam, 5.3cm high, the other with five root vegetables in white, mauve, pink, red and orange, each with a tuft of green foliage, on a filigree bed of spiralling threads, 6cm diam, 4.7cm high (2)
|ProvenanceThe vegetable weight Christie's sale, 4 June 1991, lot 293The Late Countess Poulett Collection