Paperweight with Sulphide of Chateaubriand

Object Name: 
Paperweight with Sulphide of Chateaubriand

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Object Name: 
Paperweight with Sulphide of Chateaubriand
Place Made: 
probably United States
Accession Number: 
84.4.44
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1850-1875
Credit Line: 
Clara S. Peck Endowment Fund
Primary Description: 
Colorless non-lead glass, white sulphide; encased, molded sulphide. Domed, circular form, enclosing a molded sulphide bust-length portrait of a man (Chateaubriand ?), facing slightly to dexter; the reverse flat, inscribed faintly in red-orange script "50 m/m"; polished pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Lyons, Louis, Source
1984-04-06
Peck, Clara S. (d. 1983), Source
1984-04-06
Category: 
Paperweights
Color: 
Colorless, white sulphide
colorless
Technique: 
encased, molded sulphide