plaque

Object NameFooted Plaque with Sulphide of a Biblical Scene

Made FromLead glass, sulphide

Dateabout 1830-1850

Place Madeprobably France

Techniqueencased, cut, molded sulphide

SizeOverall H: 18.2 cm, D: 8.5 cm

Accession Number84.3.205

Credit LineClara S. Peck Endowment Fund

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery

Physical DescriptionColorless lead glass, white sulphide; encased, cut, molded sulphide. Flat, oval plaque, mounted on a stem and foot; the plaque with chamfered, petal-cut rim; enclosing a molded sulphide scene of Joseph, Mary, and the infants Jesus and St. John the Baptist, with a basket of fruit at the right, a lamb at the left, a palm tree in the background; reverse of the sulphide plain; back of the plaque with cut radial ribbing; mounted vertically on a faceted flattened knop, a faceted ball knop, and two faceted flat knops, above a spreading, panel-cut stem, flaring into a circular disk foot with cut star on the underside.
Provenance

Source Louis Lyons - 1984-04-06
Purchased from Louis Lyons in 1984 using funds from the Clara S. Peck Endowment Fund. Catalogue cards say that these objects were a bequest of Clara S. Peck (by exchange), and the purchase recommendation says the museum planned to use funds acquired by deaccessioning duplicate paperweights, including some given by Mrs. Amory Houghton and Mrs. Leigh M. Battson. Several paperweights bequeathed by Clara S. Peck in 1983 were also deaccessioned around that time.