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A HOLYROOD GLASS WORKS (JOHN FORD & CO.) MONOGRAMMED AND DATED CUT-GLASS SULPHIDE PORTRAIT VASE*

THE SULPHIDE INSCRIBED L.C. WYON F., THE SIDE ENGRAVED WITH THE DATE 1880

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A HOLYROOD GLASS WORKS (JOHN FORD & CO.) MONOGRAMMED AND DATED CUT-GLASS SULPHIDE PORTRAIT VASE*
THE SULPHIDE INSCRIBED L.C. WYON F., THE SIDE ENGRAVED WITH THE DATE 1880
Of barrel form with serrated rim, the sides cut with fluted panels of strawberry diamonds, set with a sulphide portrait medallion of the Midlothian Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone to dexter, identified above and on the reverse
3½ in. (8.9 cm.) diameter; 3 7/8 in. (9.9 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

See Paul Jokelson, Sulphides, The Art of Cameo Incrustation, New York, 1968, p. 117, fig. 102 for a similar paperweight in the Collection of The Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Scotland, and p. 118, fig. 103 for a nearly identical vase in the Author's Collection.

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