A fine and rare St. Louis faceted flat bouquet colour-ground paperweight, circa 1850


With four gentian-type flowers in red, white, blue and ochre and three smaller florets, among pointed and serrated green leaves, the rare mottled green ground with an aventurine sheen, cut with a top window and six printies, 7cm diam, 4.6cm high
|ProvenanceChristie's sale, 18 May 1999, lot 437The Late Countess Poulett Collection