Four New England Glass Co. paperweights, circa 1860


Comprising a faceted upright bouquet weight, the simple posy set with three stylised flower buds in red, white and blue placed among four millefiori canes on a bed of pointed leaves, all on a white filigree ground, cut with a top window and two rows of six side printies divided by olive cuts, 6.7cm diam, 4.3cm high, together with a large pear weight containing two orangey-yellow fruit within a cruciform arrangement of leaves, 8.1cm diam, 4.3cm high, a blue clematis weight set on a filigree cushion, 6.9cm diam, 5cm high, and a New England two-tone flower weight, the stylised bloom in pink and blue around a pastry-mould cane centre, 7.6cm diam, 5.5cm high (4)
|ProvenanceLeo Kaplan Collection