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Author Topic: Green glass dump paperweights with clay figures in them encrusted cameo sulphide  (Read 13857 times)

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Offline keith

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Never seen one of those before  :o ;D ;D

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Offline flying free

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After all this time ...

I think she is a Caryatid.

I came across a report of Apsley Pellatt presenting on glass in 1847  including what the Civil Engineers and Architects Journal described as '... The enclosing of cameos in shut-up pockets was explained.'
A specimen was shown ' A beautiful specimen of pedestal, with a caryatides enclosure in solid glass, also ...' 
Which led me to look up caryatides -

See towards bottom of left hand column page 85
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Civil_Engineer_and_Architect_s_Journ/1iM6AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=falcon+glass+works+1837+closed&pg=PA85&printsec=frontcover

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caryatid

Not suggesting mine is Apsley Pellatt of course! see here for figural sulphides Pellatt:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Corning_Museum_of_Glass_-_20220312_-_31_-_Sulphide_door_plaques_personifying_Temperance_and_Fortitude,_%28Apsley_Pellatt,_c._1830%29.jpg

Simply that coming across the word caryatides jogged my memory and prompted me to look it up to check ( researching Pellatt glass at the mo).
 No idea where this would date mine to but perhaps mid 1800s?

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