Bohemia/Silesia

A post-classic closepack from the Riedel glassworks in Polaun (Bohemia) ca. 1870/80 with approx. 60 relatively simple millefiori canes encircling 8 complex canes on a dark-green, mica-flecked cushion.  (See pages 279 & 280 in Peter von Brackel’s book Classic Paperweights from Silesia/Bohemia).  Flat..

A casket (or trinket box) with hinged lid probably from the Friedrich Egermann workshop in Haida (North Bohemia) engraved with forest scenes of animals and birds.  The 5 ruby-stained panels depict a stag at bay (top), a hind at rest (front), a fleeing stag (rear), 2 pheasants (right-hand side) and a..

A low-domed weight with 3 spaced rows of complex millefiori canes on clear, attributed to the Friedrich Egermann workshop in Haida (North Bohemia).  Enclosed in the 12-toothed blue cog cane in the centre are tiny pink, blue, yellow & green millefiori canes.  The white cogs in the first row are fille..

A good example of a post-classic closepack from the Riedel glassworks in Polaun (Bohemia) ca. 1870/80 featuring colourful millefiori canes.  Most of the approx. 75 canes, which are set on a typical dark-green, mica-flecked cushion, are relatively simple (see pages 279 & 280 in Peter von Brackel’s bo..

Attributed to the group of very early millefiori weights from an as yet unidentified glassworks (see “Classic Paperweights from Silesia/Bohemia” by Peter von Brackel, Chapter 3, Page 31). Presumed to have been made in the early 1840s in Silesia or possibly in the workshop of Dr. Wilhelm Fuss in Mage..

A low-domed weight with 3 rows of complex millefiori canes on clear, attributed to the Friedrich Egermann workshop in Haida (North Bohemia). Enclosed in the ruby-sheathed, 12-toothed cog cane in the centre are tiny pink, blue, yellow & green millefiori canes. The 8 white collared canes in the first ..

An excellent Silesian weight from the Josephinenhütte with 26 canes scattered on a muslin cushion interwoven with pink & blue filigree twists. There are 8 silhouettes: 2 Prussian eagles, 2 fat foals, 2 red devils plus 2 monkeys. The weight also contains the extremely rare - and easily overlooked - c..

An unusually-shaped weight with a ruby-stained engraved base - possibly from the Egermann workshop in Haida, North Bohemia. Depicted in the engraving are a stag and hind fleeing through a forest glade with bushes in the background and 2 leafy trees in the foreground.The low-domed, oval weight has a ..

A trial weight from the Egermann workshop in Haida, Bohemia. Centred around an 8-toothed white cane, pairs of canes form a 6-point star. The majority of the 8-tooth canes are filled with 7 tiny millefiori canes - in pink, blue & green around a central white cane - although you need a magnifying glas..

A relatively large weight from the Riedl glassworks in Polaun (Bohemia) ca. 1870/80 featuring colourful millefiori canes with rods or single and concentric tubes in cog canes. The canes are graded from small around the perimeter to much larger near the complex cane in the centre. The majority of the..

Reputedly once part of the collection of the ill-fated Empress Carlota of Mexico, this fine paperweight from the Josephinenhütte in Silesia has 7 complex millefiori canes encircling a centre cane on a bed of pure white muslin. Apart from a well-shaped pale-pink & white cabbage rose, the ring contain..

Possibly from the Riedl glassworks in Polaun (Bohemia), this closepack could be an early weight produced by the factory (ca. 1870/80), as it features relatively simple canes - mainly cog canes around single or double multi-coloured tubes or rods - although some canes are slightly more intricate. For..