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Sulphide Portrait by Feuillet
France
Baccarat, circa 1820
Diameter: 5.7 cm (2 1/4 inches)
(702464)

Circular clear glass plaque enclosing a sulphide profile portrait of an unidentified man wearing a laurel wreath; sulphide by French porcelainmaker Feuillet; " FEUILLET,/Rue de la Paix,/No. 20, a Paris" inscribed on backside of sulphide; thin gilded metal band encircles plaque

Photo by Marlin Roos, Illinois State Museum

<B>Sulphide Portrait by Feuillet<BR>France<BR>Baccarat, circa 1820</B><BR>Diameter: 5.7 cm (2 1/4 inches)<BR>(702464)<BR><BR>Circular clear glass plaque enclosing a sulphide profile portrait of an unidentified man wearing a laurel wreath; sulphide by French porcelainmaker Feuillet; " FEUILLET,/Rue de la Paix,/No. 20, a Paris" inscribed on backside of sulphide; thin gilded metal band encircles plaque
     
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