A French amber-flash sulphide weight
A French amber-flash sulphide weight

MID 19TH CENTURY, PERHAPS CLICHY

Details
A French amber-flash sulphide weight
Mid 19th Century, perhaps Clichy
The sulphide depicting a waist-length portrait of Joan of Arc, inscribed in blue St. Jean, the underside flashed in mottled and striated amber
2 in. (7 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Paul Jokelson Collection.
Literature
Paul H. Dunlop, op. cit.(1991), p. 75, no. 260.

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