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Antique Glass Paperweights Art Institute of Chicago Page 1 |
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Checker, Clichy, 1845-55. Catalog 41 Paperweights with millefiori and pastry-mold canes framed in a checker arrangement were a Clichy specialty. The use here of a variety of colors (pink, pastel green, pastel blue and white) for the filigree cane segments is unusual, perhaps an experiment to create a novel effect |
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Garland-patterned millefiori on carpet ground, Baccarat, c. 1846-55 Catalog 10 The meandering pattern of this paperweight's six-loop millefiori garland, set upon a white, stardust-cane carpet ground, gives it a festive air. This rare Baccarat paperweight was compared by Paul Hollister to a "formal garden whose flowers are set in a ground of white pebbles". |