paperweight

Object NamePaperweight with Sulphide of St. Adelaide

Factory Cristallerie de Clichy

Made FromNon-lead (?) glass, sulphide

Dateabout 1846-1850

Place MadeFrance, Clichy-la-Garenne

Techniquesulphide, cut, milefiori, furnace-worked, polished

SizeOverall H: 5.3 cm, Diam (max): 8 cm

Accession Number72.3.176

Credit LineGift of Lucy Smith Battson

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

Exhibitions

Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass

Worlds Within: The Evolution of the Paperweight

On ViewAmerican Gallery

Physical DescriptionPaperweight with Sulphide of St. Adelaide. Colorless, blue and white non-lead (?) glasses; enclosing polychrome millefiori canes; fused murrine; encased sulphide; furnace-worked; cut. Domed, circular shape; top with flat, cut circular facet; sides with five concave circular facets; enclosing sulphide female portrait inscribed in blue: "Ste Adelaide", encircled by a ring of millefiori canes: six sets of white-and-red canes alternating with "rose" canes; on white-lined, blue ground; polished, concave base.
Provenance

Source Leigh "Lucy" M. Smith-Battson