paperweight

Object NamePaperweight with Sulphide of St. Rene

Maker Cristallerie de Clichy

Made FromLead glass, sulphide

Date1845-1855

Place MadeFrance

Techniquepaperweight, millefiori, sulphide, cut

SizeOverall H: 4.9 cm, Diam: 7.8 cm

Accession Number83.3.156

Credit LineBequest of Clara S. Peck

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

Not On View

Physical DescriptionColorless, blue, white, and polychrome lead glasses; paperweight, millefiori, sulphide, cut. Domed, circular form, with large flat cut circular window on top, and six concave cut windows on the side; enclosing a molded sulphide of a bearded, robed man holding a scroll in his right hand, his left hand raised, inscribed "St rene" in blue script on a panel below, with molded scrolls below and at the sides of the panel; encircled by a ring of millefiori canes with six pink and green roses interspersed with five "Edelweiss" canes; set on a royal blue ground backed with opaque white; polished pontil mark; paper label, inscribed "149" in ink.
Provenance

Source Clara S. Peck (d. 1983) - 1983-05-20

Former Collection Paul Jokelson (d. 2002)