A very rare St. Louis pink and white encased double overlay upright bouquet paperweight, circa 1850


The three-dimensional posy or nosegay with three tiers of differently-coloured gentian-type flowers, each containing a tiny air bead, nestling among bright green pointed leaves, overlaid in rose-pink and white and cut with a top and six side printies and then further cased in clear glass, the base with a star-cut centre, 7.2cm diam, 5.3cm high
|A similar example in the Bergstrom Collection is illustrated by Paul Hollister, Encyclopedia of Glass Paperweights (1969), col. fig.43. A pink encased double overlay paperweight containing a single blue flower was in the Leo Kaplan Collection, sold by Bonhams 11 July 2018, lot 365. A very similar flower spray within a blue encased double overlay is illustrated by Paul Jokelson, One Hundred of the most important Paperweights (1955), pl.61.