ANTIQUE BACCARAT BUTTERCUP LAMPWORK ART GLASS PAPERWEIGHT, central white and red buttercup with a yellow stamen, five interior petals and six ruby exterior petals, five green leaves protruding from the backside with an additional leaf broken off to the side, short green stem supporting two additional leaves and matching bud, cut rayed underside. The Compagnie des Verreries et Cristalleries de Baccarat. Circa 1850. 2" H, 2 5/8" DOA.
Literature: Parallels Dunlop - Baccarat Paperweights, p. 72, fig. 225.

Property from a Wooster, Ohio estate collection. 

Good condition overall with the surface likely having been repolished, having some scattered crescent-form lines which are likely imperfections left over from bruises; roughness and flaking to the underside.