Lot Essay
Cf. Paul Jokelson, Sulphides, The Art of Cameo Incrustation (New York, 1968), p. 21, fig. 6 for a scent-bottle with a sulphide portrait of George IV attributed to Apsley Pellatt.
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CIRCA 1835, PROBABLY BACCARAT
Details
A French rectangular desk-weight
Circa 1835, probably Baccarat
Of stepped rectangular form, the underside cut with diamonds and enclosing two sulphide portraits, the left-hand example perhaps representing the Duke of Wellington, the right-hand example King George IV, the central spherical knob enclosing a sulphide rosette (minute chipping)
7½ in. (19 cm.) wide
Circa 1835, probably Baccarat
Of stepped rectangular form, the underside cut with diamonds and enclosing two sulphide portraits, the left-hand example perhaps representing the Duke of Wellington, the right-hand example King George IV, the central spherical knob enclosing a sulphide rosette (minute chipping)
7½ in. (19 cm.) wide