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Sulphides
Sulphide portrait designs were a conscious revival of ancient cameos from Pompeii and Herculaneum during the Classical Revival Period of the early to mid-1800s. The Barker Collection contains sulphide paperweights and in the form of plaques, which were hung in groups as interior decoration. Apsley Pellatt examples are of a sulphide-encrusted bottle and an obelisk.
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