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Object NameFooted Cross with Cameo Incrustation of the Madonna and Child

Made FromGlass, Sulphide

Date1820-1840

Place Madepossibly France; perhaps Bohemia

Techniquecased, applied, cut, polished

SizeOverall H: 29.3 cm, Diam: 12.1 cm

Accession Number2006.3.45

Credit LineGift of Dr. Julius and Dena Tarshis

Curatorial Area(s)

Exhibitions

Baccarat: Paperweights and Related Glass, 1820-1860

On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery

Physical DescriptionColorless glass; cased, applied, cameo incrustated ("sulphide"), cut and polished. Cut cross atop a flattened oval en-casing an opaque white sulphide of the Madonna and child atop a single large knop and a flat, circular foot with cut star in the bottom.
Provenance

Source Dena K. Tarshis (d. 2009)