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Josephinenhütte: Scattered - 16 Silhouettes

Josephinenhütte: Scattered - 16 Silhouettes
Josephinenhütte: Scattered - 16 Silhouettes
Josephinenhütte: Scattered - 16 Silhouettes
Josephinenhütte: Scattered - 16 Silhouettes
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Josephinenhütte: Scattered - 16 Silhouettes
Josephinenhütte: Scattered - 16 Silhouettes
Josephinenhütte: Scattered - 16 Silhouettes
Josephinenhütte: Scattered - 16 Silhouettes
Josephinenhütte: Scattered - 16 Silhouettes

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 - complex millefiori cane with 8 silhouette canes around a white central floret. These are impossible to see without a strong magnifying glass. For an enlargement of the silhouettes - 3 fat foals, 2 monkeys and 3 slender foals - see page 71 (top right) of Peter von Brackel’s book Classic Paperweights from Silesia/Bohemia. There are a couple of cane repeats and one cane is split. One of the monkey silhouette canes has a small crack - as so often in Silesian/Bohemian weights - it is not an annealing crack !
The polished concave base is encircled by a wide wear rim.
For details of the above-mentioned book see our Books & Catalogues section !
      

General
Conditionexcellent
Diameter74mm - 2 7/8"
Height49mm - 1 15/16"
  • Reference: BOH 03164
  • Weight: 0.60kg