Assorted Antique Antique

Antique Bohemian glass newel post, with ruby-flash overlay. The piece has flower-pattern facets on the top and circular facets on the sides. Wooden base. Diameter 4 1/2". Surface wear. [hide]

Antique Venetian round scent bottle with brass stopper. The portrait cane of a Venetian gentlemen and a gondola picture cane, along with a partial portrait cane, emerge from a sea of aventurine and colored glass in shades of red, blue, green, turquoise and white. Finished with a simple brass stopper. Height 2 1/8", width 1 1/2". [hide]

Unidentified, probably Belgian, antique silver Athena sulphide paperweight. Seated before two kneeling chldren, the Greek goddess, Athena, holds a small basket and points with her right hand, as if indicating a direction for them to follow. A spear, shield and owl are at her side and the Parthenon presides in the distance. Silver sulphide set above an opaque white ground and garlanded by a red, white and blue twist torsade. Diameter 2 1/2". [hide]

Antique Saint Louis spaced concentric millefiori paperweight. A central blue and white floret, rimmed in a white tube cane with red interior, is ringed first by delicate salmon-colored cogs and then by a circle of white tubes. Five spaced red and white circlets with star cane centers ensue, all garlanded with a border of blue and white complex canes of two alternating designs, over clear ground. Diameter 2 1/4". [hide]

Antique Czechoslovakian lion sulphide paperweight. The piece contains a three-dimensional white sulphide of a lion, over clear ground. Diameter 3 1/4". [hide]