Collection Highlights
Unidentified Osage Warrior Wearing Bird Headdress
1807
1860.91
Charcoal with stumping, Cont
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Paperweight: sulphide
Object name
Paperweight: sulphide
Date
1845-1860
Medium
Glass
Dimensions
Overall: 1 3/4 x 3 1/8 in. ( 4.4 x 7.9 cm )
Description
Lead glass paperweight of flattened spherical shape cut with one top punty and six side punties; sulphide American flag on deep cobalt blue over white ground.
Credit Line
Bequest of Mrs. F. MacDonald Sinclair
Object Number
1965.324
Marks
handwritten in ink: on paper label affixed to base: "463"
Gallery Label
Baccarat and Clichy of France have both been suggested as possible manufacturers of this paperweight, though it may have been made in the U.S. The form of the flag is unusual, with thirty-two stars arranged in the shape of a star. The paperweight may commemorate Minnesota's admission as the thirty-second state in 1858. It is also possible, however, that the flag represents Texas, the Lone Star State, which was admitted in 1845.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
