Two St. Louis faceted fruit paperweights, circa 1850


Comprising a Cherries weight, the pointed orange branch hung with two ripe red cherries on yellow thread-like stems, cut with a top printie and three rows of either eight or ten printies in different sizes, strawberry-cut base, 7.4cm diam, 4.9cm high, and a grapes weight, the bunch of dark purple or black grapes hanging from a white stalk suspended from an orange-coloured branch bearing three light green leaves, cut with a top printie surrounded by seven smaller round printies and six side printies, 7.3cm diam, 5.2cm diam (2)
|ProvenanceLeo Kaplan Collection