Artist/Maker
Baccarat
Depicted
Marquis de Lafayette
(French, 1757 – 1834)
Paperweight
1845-1850
Place madeFrance, Europe
Glass
Overall: 1 3/4 in. × 2 3/4 in. (4.4 × 7 cm)
Bequest of Mrs. F. MacDonald Sinclair
1965.135
DescriptionLead glass paperweight of flattened spherical shape enclosing sulphide profile portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette on a rose ground.Markingshandwritten in ink: on lower edge of sulphide: "Lafayette"
ClassificationsGLASS
