Two St. Louis upright bouquet paperweights, circa 1850


One with a small group of formal flowers nestling among a posy of unusually-long pointed leaves, the leaves glistening with 'dew', set on a very-finely constructed white torsade woven from latticinio threads and a single mercurial line at the edge, small star-cut base, 7.1cm diam, 5.4cm high, the other with a red, white and blue posy set within a white spiral torsade, cut with a small top window and all-over honeycomb faceting, star-cut base, 6.7cm diam, 4.7cm high (2)
|ProvenanceLeo Kaplan Collection