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Object NamePaperweight with Sulphide of Queen Marie Antoinette

Factoryprobably Cristallerie de Clichy

Made FromLead glass, sulphide

Dateabout 1845-1855

Techniquepaperweight, millefiori, molded sulphide

SizeOverall H: 5.6 cm, Diam: 8.2 cm

Accession Number55.3.92

Credit LineGift of the Honorable and Mrs. Amory Houghton

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

Exhibitions

Heads of State

Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows

Place Made

France, probably Clichy-la-Garenne

Physical DescriptionPaperweight with Sulphide of Queen Marie Antoinette. Colorless, green, white, pink lead glass; paperweight, millefiori, molded sulphide. Domed, circular form, enclosing a molded sulphide of Marie Antoinette, depicting her facing left, with elaborate coiffeur, wearing beads, and an elaborate dress; encircled by a ring of millefiori "rose" canes, large white roses with red centers spaced by sets of three smaller, green and white roses; on a brilliant, transparent dark green ground; polished concave base.
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