Brooch with Sulphide Relief

1860s

5.4 cm 4.1 cm

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A large oval, faceted glass crystal is mounted in an elaborate scrollwork frame of pinchbeck, a copper-zinc substitute for gold. Embedded in the crystal is a white, sulphide relief of Leda and the Swan. The sulphide technique of enclosing porcellaneous reliefs within crystals...

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Mrs. John N. Adkins [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, November 14, 1972, by gift.
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brooches

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