The clear crystal set with a pale-pink snake with green markings along its back and red eyes and nostrils. The reptile is lying in a coiled position on white upset muslin. Interestingly enough most Baccarat snakes, starting from the tail, are coiled clockwise - this one is anti-clockwiseThe weight h..
This design - part of the “Blossom Collection” - is from the final year of paperweight production at Baccarat and is one of only 3 miniature limited edition weights ever made by the company. Above a clear ground with a pale-blue flash around the lower part of the dome, 14 white & pale-blue millefio..
A neatly set 19th Century 3-row concentric around a 4-cane centre cluster on clear. The canes are well made although not particularly complex. The colours - red, white & blue - could possibly indicate a French glassworks, but so far, it has not proved possible to match the canes to any of the known ..
Ronald E. Hansen (1913-1986)Started making lampwork paperweights in the 1960s - mainly flowers but also birds and snakes.A small paperweight with a nosegay composed of pale-blue tubes and ochre corrugated canes with white star centres around a red & white Baccarat-style fortress cane. There are 2 ma..
A well made Baccarat Dupont 4-row concentric encircling a white & green 6-point star cane. The millefiori canes are in shades of red & white, blue & white and an outer garland of green & white stardust canes centred by red/white concentric tubes. The second row consists of composite canes made up of..
A closepack design with 7 butterfly silhouettes (3 blue, 2 red & 2 green) scattered throughout the millefiori canes, which are predominantly in shades of blue with just a hint of other colours, such as mauve and pale-orange. The outer row of multi-coloured canes is pulled to the centre of the base t..
Looped around a miniature “primrose” with 6 blue & red-outlined arrow cane “petals” encircled by forest-green & white corrugated canes are 2 interlaced millefiori trefoils in shades of pink/white and pink/orange with white stardust and green bull’s eye centres.Set over a clear ground with a polishe..
One of Baccarat’s less common flowers - the buttercup. Often found with the outer petals in one colour and the inner petals in white, this is a single colour flower - appropriately enough, an attractive lemony-yellow - with a white stardust cluster “stamen”. The short, curved stem bears a single red..
From the 1999 Collection “Gardens of the World” - a series which included lampwork and millefiori and was inspired by the diaries of a plant enthusiast - this is “Chatou”, the Island of the Impressionists. The large lampwork weight in 2 layers, has a delightful “naive” look to it rather than an impr..
A great assortment of typical Baccarat millefiori canes - in colours covering virtually the whole spectrum from pastel shades to dark blues, strong reds and violet - in this magnum closepack incorporating the 12 signs of the Zodiac - No. 2 in the series. Neatly finished, as always, with the outer ro..
A stunning one-off design similar to the Helios and Ouranos patterned millefiori editions issued in 1996. Complex millefiori canes in shades of amber/white/pink are set in a radiating spoke pattern over a translucent rose ground underlaid with opaque white. The panels are filled with blue/green, gre..
The 1994 limited editions were all floral designs - and included this large magnolia blossom. The outer pink-striped white petals are fully open, the others are tightly clustered around the pink/white stamen. Completing the design - over an opaque blue ground underlaid with milky white - are a bud, ..