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Object NameFooted Cross

Made FromLead glass, sulphide

Dateabout 1820-1840

Place Madepossibly France

Techniqueencased, overlay, cut, molded sulphide

SizeOverall H: 19.8 cm, W: 9 cm

Accession Number84.3.117

Credit LineClara S. Peck Endowment Fund

Curatorial Area(s)

Not On View

Physical DescriptionColorless, blue, opaque white lead glasses, white sulphide; encased, overlay, cut, molded sulphide. Tall, ovoid column, with flat cross on the top, arms ending in four-sided pyramids, mounted on a ball knop; column formed from a rounded, rectangular form with rounded sides, overlaid opaque white on brilliant blue, with a cut concave face on the front, revealing a molded sulphide of Mary holding the infant Jesus in her arms, with angels in clouds at her feet; mounted on a flaring knop with hexagonal panel-cut stem flaring into a hexagonal foot with cut rounded, slightly concave rim; complex star-cut bottom, formed of a six-pointed star with cut fans at the angles.
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).