One of a series of 6 medium-size weights issued in 1992 depicting various types of fruit - including cherries, a peach and pear - although none of these motifs appear in Gérard Ingold’s book: “The Art of the Paperweight” or in the 1992 St. Louis catalogue. A bunch of red currants - along with 3 ..
A crystal dome decorated with engraved stems and leaves and 7 complex millefiori canes. Signed with an acid-etched St Louis Crystal France stamp on the polished, concave base...
A medium-size weight from the Floralies series issued in 1991, although none are illustrated in Gérard Ingold’s book “The Art of the Paperweight”. The flower’s 5 petals - made of 3 or 4 fine, mauve filigree threads - are recessed in the domed, opaque white cushion. The flower is borne on a green ste..
To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Revolution in 1789, St Louis issued a penholder in a limited edition of 200. The ribbons and latticinio twists - in the national colours - in the base are continued in the narrow upright receptacle. This one is in its original presentation box and comes co..
A highly sought-after St Louis design: a cruciform setting of complex millefiori canes in shades of pink, red, pistachio, white, emerald-green, amber, light & dark-blue. The canes are arranged on an opaque turquoise colour ground. Signed with a white/red SL1987 cane in a circlet of blue &a..
A millefiori mushroom with 6 rows of fine canes in colours ranging from pale & dark-green, blue & turquoise to pink & ochre - is enclosed within a white-on-green double overlay. The outer row of canes is drawn into a tapering stem. The overlay is finished with a top and 6 cir..
One of the 3 weights introduced in St Louis' first collection of Annual Limited Editions. There were 3 colourways - red, blue and pistachio - (how the total of 800 was divided is unknown) and it was issued in a domed and faceted version. This pistachio flower has 4 layers of overlapping petals with..
Set on a filigree double-swirl pedestal foot with 2 white twist torsades are 9 concentric rows of millefiori canes around a small central star cane. The rows are meticulously set, with virtually no slippage. Colours range from red, pink & blue to pale-green, white & ochre. There is no signature/da..
A rare early lampwork flower from St Louis: a pale-blue double clematis with ribbed petals set around a white millefiori cane centre. The short curving stem bears 2 green leaves. Seen from the front, the bottom half of the stem is perfectly in place - on the back view, however, you can see that, in ..
A closepack mushroom with a dark-blue SL1953 signature/date cane in a tomato-red on white double overlay, cut with a top window and 5 side facets. The colours of the millefiori canes - ranging from yellow, pink & white to red, blue & green - are pale in comparison with those found in St Louis’ antiq..
Probably made in the early 1950s, this concentric mushroom is attributed to St. Louis - although it has no signature/date cane, but it came from a collection of early St Louis paperweights. Relatively-complex canes - in shades of deep-pink, blue, white and green - with the outer row forming a taperi..