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A BACCARAT MAGNUM FACETED SULPHIDE PORTRAIT WEIGHT
Lot 639

A BACCARAT MAGNUM FACETED SULPHIDE PORTRAIT WEIGHT

MID 19TH CENTURY

Closed26 September 2007

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A BACCARAT MAGNUM FACETED SULPHIDE PORTRAIT WEIGHT
Mid 19th century
Enclosing a sulphide portrait bust of King Louis Philippe facing to the right on a translucent turquoise ground, cut with geometric facets
3½ in. (8.9 cm.) diameter, 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm.) high

New-York Historical Society, with red enamel accession number 1365.456 with L.H. Selman, Santa Cruz, CA., Fall sale 1997, lot 102

Specialist note

Cf. Paul Jokelson, Sulphides, The Art of Cameo Incrustation, New York, 1968, p.83, fig. 78.