The large, rooster silhouette in the centre - set on a thin layer of white lace - is encircled by a ring of pale & dark-blue composite millefiori canes and a ring of yellow canes containing the other 17 Gridel silhouettes. Turquoise/brown and red complex millefiori canes form a double border garland..
A pentagonal top facet, deep scallops and 5 round side facets in the yellow-on-white double overlay of this paperweight expose a 4-row concentric mushroom with complex millefiori canes in white, pale-pink, yellow & deep-pink. An outer row of green/white canes are drawn into a narrow stem which taper..
A popular design from this French glassworks; closely-packed, vibrantly-coloured complex millefiori canes with silhouettes of the 12 signs of the Zodiac scattered amongst them.Signed and dated on a single cane: B 1979. Flat, polished base with the acid-etched Baccarat insignia, year and number (139)..
The 1978 “Exotic Butterfly” series was made up of 6 limited editions. Set over a semi-translucent dark-green ground (appears black !) covered with thousands of tiny air bubbles, is a beautiful pink butterfly. The outstretched honeycomb wings bear yellow-outlined, deep-blue eye-spots.A tiny B1978 sig..
The fragile beauty of a large butterfly from the “Exotic Butterfly” series; the brown-bodied insect with white eyes, yellow antennae and amber/white fore and hind wings is set above an off-white ground. Signed with a small B1978 signature/date cane. Acid-etched Baccarat insignia on the polished, sl..
A striking blue butterfly from the 1978 “Exotic Butterfly” series. The insect with honeycomb wings attached to a brown body - with yellow antennae and white eyes - flutters over an opaque white ground. Signed with a B1978 date cane near the perimeter. Polished, concave base with acid-etched Bacca..
One of the 6 designs in the “Exotic Butterfly” series. In the centre of the violet/brown honeycomb wings are blue eye-spots. The brown-bodied insect - with its white eyes, yellow antennae and outstretched wings - is flying over a mossy pebble ground.A tiny B1978 signature/date cane is set at the edg..
One of the 6 limited edition paperweights in the “Exotic Butterfly” series: a butterfly with blue/white wings over a pebble ground studded with patches of moss. The insect has a brown body, white eyes and yellow antennae.On the lower right - set at the edge of the ground - is a tiny B1978 signature/..
4 rows of upright hollow latticinio rods space the millefiori canes in this 10-row close concentric set around a 10-point star filled with deep-pink bull’s eye canes. The glass makers at Baccarat had an eye for unusual colour combinations - setting green & yellow next to pale & coral-pink and an out..
A closely-packed array of colourful complex Baccarat millefiori canes with 12 black & white signs of the Zodiac scattered amongst them. The outer row of canes is pulled underneath to form a multi-coloured basket. A pink/white B1978 signature/date cane is set between the signs for Libra and Cancer. A..
One of Baccarat’s most popular designs - in a version in which the 12 signs of the Zodiac are spaced evenly around the perimeter and in the centre of an unsual snow-white carpet-ground made up of 8-point stars in white tubes. The final row of canes is drawn underneath the paperweight to form a baske..
A green-on-white double overlay is cut with a top window and 5 side facets to reveal a mushroom with 6 rows of concentric canes in shades of blue, green, white, and red & pink around a blue 5-point centre star. The outer row of deep pink staves forms a tapering stem. A B1978 signature/date cane is s..