A rare St. Louis flat bouquet paperweight, circa 1850


Inset with a large central pelargonium flower with five deep cobalt blue petals around a yellow centre, within a circle of other various smaller flowers and buds in shades of orange, pink, white, blue and red, with assorted stems and leaves, star-cut base, 6.4cm diam, 4.7cm high
|ProvenanceSotheby's sale, 2 March 1993, lot 182The Late Countess Poulett CollectionA St. Louis bouquet with a very similar composition is illustrated by Paul Dunlop, The Dictionary of Glass Paperweights (2009), P.62, fig.62. Another identical weight is illustrated by Lawrence Selman and Linda Pope-Selman, Paperweights for Collectors (1975), p.85, fig.190.