Saint Louis Antique

Antique Saint Louis close concentric millefiori paperweight. A fourteen-point red hollow cog sits in a white cane with a blue and white six-point ogee-tipped star at its center. It launches six close concentric rings of contrasting canes in blue, red, white and green, including floret canes, cog tubes, ogee-tipped cogs and crosses. A white ogee-tipped cog cane stave basket cups the design. Good condition. Diameter 3". [hide]

Antique Saint Louis upright bouquet and torsade glass paperweight. The bouquet consists of two clematis flowers, one in red and one in white, and are joined by one blue lamp work bud and two millefiori flowers, several green leaves, on gathered stems, which are encircled by a blue spiral-encased white twist torsade, over clear star-cut ground. Diameter of the paperweight is 2 11/16". [hide]

Antique Saint Louis millefiori nosegay with garland on upset muslin paperweight. The nosegay, with four millefiori flowers in white, blue, coral and apricot, grows from two bright green stems and is surrounded by five green leaves, then encircled by a millefiori garland composed of alternating coral and blue complex canes. The design rests on a bed of delicate white upset muslin. Provenance: The Anthony and Priscilla Beadell collection. Diameter 2 7/8". [hide]

Antique Saint Louis scrambled millefiori wafer stand. A clear and shallow bowl, with a blue-over-white rim, is shaped with six ruffle lobes and rises from a base filled with scrambled millefiori and latticinio bits, including a complete dog silhouette cane near the center, in the traditional pistachio, chartreuse, coral and light blue colors. From the C. Frank Kireker Collection. Minor surface wear. Diameter 3 1/2", height 3 1/2". [hide]

Antique Saint Louis upright bouquet faceted miniature paperweight. Lampwork flowers and millefiori canes, in blue, white and pink, cradle within a fan of gathered green leaves. Clear ground. All-over circular faceting. Diameter 2 1/16". [hide]

Antique Saint Louis nosegay on amber ground faceted paperweight. Four diverse millefiori blossoms, one a Persian blue, one salmon-colored, one ruby and one white, are tucked into the center of five long, crenulated green leaves, trailing stems gathered to create a traditional Victorian nosegay, over translucent amber, diamond cut ground. Eight circular side facets and all-over, large honeycomb faceting to the top. Diameter 3 3/8". [hide]

Antique Saint Louis scrambled millefiori wafer stand. The piece has a clear shallow bowl, with a pink and white twist torsade around the scalloped rim. The paperweight-shaped base contains whole and partial complex canes, filigree, and white latticinio. Diameter 2 13/16", Height 3 1/16" Very minor surface wear. [hide]

Antique Saint Louis scrambled millefiori wafer stand dish. The piece has a clear shallow bowl, with dark red torsade around the scalloped rim. The paperweight-shaped base contains whole and partial complex canes, filigree, and white latticinio. Fine condition. Diameter 2 11/16", height 3 7/16". [hide]

Antique Saint Louis close concentric millefiori mushroom paperweight. A white floret, ringed in cobalt blue, is at the core of a complex center cane of pale green and white tube cogs and a ring of more white florets in blue. The complex cane is encircled by a ring of similar canes, this time with salmon-cored white tubes on the periphery, followed by a ring of white ogee-tipped sawmill canes, with small red star cores and, finally, a ring of white florets, ringed in salmon, encircled by salmon-cored white tubes with an outer layer of translucent green. Alternating white sawmill canes and salmon-colored complex tube canes are pulled downward into a stem for the concentric mushroom tuft. Blue and white twist torsade over a clear, star-cut ground. Fine condition. Diameter 2 13/16". [hide]

Antique Saint Louis orange clematis on latticinio swirl paperweight. A two-tiered single clematis blossom, with five orange petals striped in black around a purple match-head center and a second tier of five more petals, perches atop a long curving stem flanked by two large serrated green leaves and with a single smaller leaf protruding from behind the bloom. White double-swirl latticinio cushion. From the C. Frank Kireker Collection. Surface wear. Diameter 2 1/2". [hide]

Antique Saint Louis fuchsias on swirling latticinio paperweight. Two dark pink and purple fuchsias bloom on opposite sides of a light green stem, with five green leaves and two slender pink buds, on a cushion of white double-swirl latticinio. From the C. Frank Kireker Collection. Diameter 2 3/4". [hide]

Antique Saint Louis blue triple clematis on latticinio cushion faceted paperweight. A clematis flower, with three tiers of striped cobalt blue petals around a central yellow and pink match-head, blooms atop a short green stem, with two side leaves, and is crowned by three green leaves. White double-swirl latticinio cushion. Six side facets. "These flowers do not occur so frequently as the dahlia, about one in six of the St. Louis flower type being a clematis. The flowers are usually double, with gentian blue." —Paperweights and Other Glass Curiosities. Diameter 3 1/8". [hide]

Antique Saint Louis fruit bouquet on a latticinio basket paperweight. Three amber and chartreuse-colored pears fan out on a carpet of bright red cherries and serrated green leaves, over a white double-swirl latticinio basket. Fair condition. Diameter 3 5/16". [hide]

Antique Saint Louis posy with garland paperweight. Four millefiori complex canes of various design and color, including a pastry mold cane, arrow canes, a floret and cogs, nestle within four serrated green leaves, forming a traditional posy design with gathered stems. A garland of alternating white and chartreuse canes frames the motif which is encased in clear ground. See "The French Connection; The Improbable Paperweight Path" by Anthony D. Beadell. Diameter 2 5/8". [hide]

Antique Saint Louis posy faceted paperweight. Four millefiori complex canes, in white, red, green and blue, display as four little flowers nestled within a gathering of serrated green leaves pulled into a traditional Victorian posy. Amber flash ground on the underside. Six large circular side facets and seven smaller circular facets framing a top facet. From the collection featured in "The French Connexion; The Improbable Paperweight Path", by Anthony D. Beadell - 2012 PCA Bulletin. Significant pitting to amber flash. Diameter 2 1/2". [hide]

Antique Saint Louis multifaceted upright bouquet handcooler paperweight. The piece contains six spaced lampwork flowers, in cobalt blue, pink, and white, which are nestled among dark green leaves, on clear ground. All-over geometric facets. Height 2 1/2", diameter 2". [hide]

Antique Saint Louis fruit bouquet in latticinio basket paperweight. The piece contains a blushing apple, two pears, four red cherries, and green leaves, in an informal arrangement, on a swirling white latticinio basket. Diameter 3 1/8". [hide]

Antique Saint Louis fruit bouquet in a latticinio basket paperweight. An informal arrangement of two pears and an apple, in shades of blushed coral and chartreuse, along with four red cherries and a scattering of several green leaves, rests on a fine white double-swirl latticinio basket. Surface wear. Diameter 2 3/4”. [hide]

Antique Saint Louis cherries faceted paperweight. Two red cherries hang on thin yellow stems from a brown branch with three serrated green leaves. Clear ground. Top facet encircled by seven small facets and six large side facets. Fair condition. Diameter 2 15/16". [hide]

Antique Saint Louis nosegay and millefiori garland paperweight. Four millefiori in white, pink, yellow and blue form a traditional nosegay, with three smooth crowning leaves and two serrated flanking leaves, and are encircled by a millefiori border garland of alternating pale blue complex canes and cobalt arrow canes. Clear ground. Diameter 2 7/8". [hide]