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Paneled Carpet Ground Paperweight with Sulphide Portrait of Empress Josephine
Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louisc.1845-1855
Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass
Neenah, Wisconsin, United States
This complex paperweight design uses closely arranged millefiori canes placed in alternating colored panels of red and blue separated by a row of white canes, subtly suggesting the French flag. They surround and accentuate the central figure of Empress Josephine.
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- Title: Paneled Carpet Ground Paperweight with Sulphide Portrait of Empress Josephine
- Creator: Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis
- Date: c.1845-1855, c.1845-1855
- Physical Dimensions: h4.9 x w7.2 cm
- Type: Paperweight
- External Link: Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass
- Medium: Glass
- Object ID: PW 1958.125.125
- Credit Line: Bequest of Evangeline H. Bergstrom
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