St. Louis

The bouquet is centred by a blue pelargonium with 5 heart-shaped petals around a green/white honeycomb millefiori stamen.  Completing the bouquet are 4 clematis blossoms - in shades of pale-orange, pink, blue & white - 2 larger tulips, an orange & a red bud, several green leaves and gathered, curved..

A medium-size green carpet ground with a central circlet of white & dusty pink cog canes and 5 smaller circlets of blue/rust florets & white cogs.The design is not perfectly centred and there is some misalignment in the canes forming the base layer with detritus adhering to one of them Polis..

A large concentric with an unusual centre: 13 blue/brown florets of varying sizes are set in sodden snow, edged with 9 cross canes. This is encircled by 6 rings of assorted complex canes in shades of cobalt-blue, white, pale-blue, salmon-pink, green & lime-green. The outermost ring - lime-green tube..

Red-lined white crimp staves enclose 5 rows of complex millefiori canes and crimps centred by a black dancing devil silhouette. The glassmakers at St. Louis certainly knew how to use subtle colours schemes to achieve maximum effect. Here cobalt-blue & green florets have been placed next to pale-pink..

A small, 5 row concentric...with pink & white crimp canes, blue & white stars in white collars (which are repeated in the third row in clusters of 7 - without the collars!), white crimps and white stars in dark-green corrugated canes...all enclosed in a basket of large red & white fortress canes.Pol..

A mid-size, concentric featuring a centre set-up with blue, white & red florets and green crimps. This is encircled by 2 rows of complex canes; pale salmon tubes enclosing pale green crimps and a row similar to the complex centre cane. Rows 3 and 4 display green-centred white crimps and blue-cen..

A close concentric in a harmonious colour combination. Centering the 7 rows of millefiori canes is a small dog silhouette cane. The SL1848 signature/date cane is in the 6th row from the centre. The blue/white canes in the outer row are pulled to the centre underneath the weight.Some cullet from the ..

Green-lined white crimp canes enclose 5 rows of large pink & white cross canes, blue & green complex canes and florets. The large centre set-up consists of 2 rows of pink & white and pure white canes around a blue 12-point star set in a red-lined white tube. Although very slightly off-centre, the de..

A central white cog, lined in blue and containing 4 pink crosses is surrounded by 7 rows of crimps, florets and complex millefiori canes - in pastel tones of pale blue, pale green, pink, lemon and white, including one row of darker blue - all set in a pink crimp basket in this excellent St. Louis co..

A small, low-domed crown composed of latticinio twists alternating with 8 opaque white spiralling ribbons coated blue on one side and orange on the other - a combination seen far less frequently than red/green or red/blue. At the apex - where the latticinio and ribbons meet - is a 2-ring pale-green/..

Miniature crowns are far less common than their larger counterparts. Radiating out from a complex centre cane with blue-and-white florets, green crimps and a red-and-white star in a white collar, 9 red & green spiral ribbons - edged in opaque white - alternate with white multi-ply latticinio twists...

The hollow-bown centre of this outstanding crown is surrounded by deep-pink & cobalt-blue twisted ribbons alternating with fine spiralling white latticinio, and centred by a large floret composed of 12 salmon-pink tubes and 8 white stars.Provenance: 1) Alan Tillman’s Summer Exhibition, London 19..