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book

Object NameBook

Made FromLead glass, sulphide

Dateabout 1820-1840

Techniqueencased, cut, molded sulphide

SizeOverall W: 5 cm, L: 7.5 cm

Accession Number84.3.116

Credit LineClara S. Peck Endowment Fund

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern
Modern

Place Made

France

Physical DescriptionTranslucent blue, colorless lead glasses, white sulphide; encased, cut, molded sulphide. Flat, rectangular shape, in the form of a book, with one long side convex, the other three concave; with an oval of colorless glass applied on top, enclosing a molded white sulphide of a female saint, holding a palm frond in her right hand, and with a curved, flat band below, stained blue, with scratched inscription "Ste catherine."
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