St. Louis

A fine hollow-blown crown with 10 tightly-coiled, white-edged red & green ribbons alternating with white latticinio twists. The ribbons and twists meet at the apex under a complex lime-green, pink, blue & white millefiori cane. The polished concave base has a narrow wear rim.  ..

Miniature mushrooms are not nearly as common as their larger counterparts. The tuft here is formed of 2 rows of pistachio/white & pink/white complex millefiori canes encircling a blue-lined, 28-point feature cane centred by 4 pink St Louis cross canes. The tuft is borne on a stem of green, white & r..

Miniature mushrooms such as this one only rarely appear on the market. Centring the small tuft is a red-lined, 28-point white feature cane framing a blue/white floret. This is encircled by 2 rows of millefiori canes in shades of blue, white & green and pink, white & green. The outer row of terracott..

The tuft is formed by a large green, white, salmon & blue floret ringed by green, pink & blue and blue, white & pink complex millefiori canes. Dark-blue & white corrugated canes border the design and are pulled down to form the tapered stem of the mushroom over a 24-point starcut. The torsade around..

The centre complex of the tuft consists of a small blue star with white collar surrounded by pale green star tubes and red/white/blue bull’s eye canes. This is encircled by white stardust clusters; a row of complex red. white & blue canes; 2 rows of crimped tubes (white and pale blue), both lined in..

A fine concentric mushroom, with none of the slippage so often found in dated St. Louis weights. The tuft is composed of 5 rows of complex canes in pink, blue, chartreuse, white, claret and green tones; signed in the outer row SL 1848. The mushroom is encircled at the foot by a white corkscrew and b..

The mushroom - with 3 concentric rings of complex canes around a large blue, white & green floret - is contained in a basket of claret-lined white ribbed canes set within a torsade of cobalt blue spirals around a twisted white latticinio ribbon.  The weight is finished with a top window and 3 rows o..

The viola - also referred to as a pansy - is one of the less common flowers from St. Louis. It has 2 deep-purple (almost black!) upper petals and 3 pale-yellow/amber lower petals with purple markings. In the centre is a pale-yellow millefiori “stamen”. There are 2 leaves behind the flowerhead with 2..

A perfectly-shaped deep-pink flower - the petals formed from numerous recessed-tubes set around a “stamen” of fine yellow rods - is borne on a short, curved green stem. The stem bears 2 leaves with 2 further leaves about the flower as well as a pink bud. Set over a double-swirl filigree ground. Pol..

Almost in the miniature category, the clear glass of this beautiful weight is set with a white camomile composed of numerous rows of feathery, recessed petals with a pale-lemon stamen. The curved stem bears 2 serrated leaves and arranged behind the flower are 2 further leaves and a white-and-green b..

A 5-flower upright bouquet composed of 2 millefiori canes and 3 lampwork flowers. The green leaves with serrated edges wrapped around the flowers, taper down to the clear ground. A torsade of tightly-coiled red & white filigree threads encircles the bouquet. The weight has a 10-sided top window;..

An upright bouquet composed of 3 lampwork flowers (red, blue & white) and 3 millefiori cane flowers (blue, blue/white & pale-amber). The profusion of green leaves with serrated edges, wrapped around the flowers, tapers down to the clear ground. The weight is finished with a small circular top facet ..