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Louis Kossuth Sulphide Paperweight
Alfred Borrelc.1852
Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass
Neenah, Wisconsin, United States
Louis (or Lajos) Kossuth (1802-1894) was a Hungarian general, and the foremost leader of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848-1849. The French artist Alfred Borrel sculpted a bronze medal of Governor Kossuth, commemorating his trip to the United States in 1851-1852. This sulphide portrait appears to have been cast from the bronze medal.
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Details
- Title: Louis Kossuth Sulphide Paperweight
- Creator: Bakewell & Company, Alfred Borrel (French, 1836-1927), sculptor
- Date: c.1852
- Physical Dimensions: h4.52 x w6.5 cm
- Type: Paperweight
- External Link: Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass
- Medium: Glass
- Object ID: PW 1958.57.57
- Credit Line: Bequest of Evangeline H. Bergstrom
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