A BACCARAT SULPHIDE PORTRAIT TUMBLER

19TH CENTURY

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A BACCARAT SULPHIDE PORTRAIT TUMBLER
19th century
Finely engraved with a Masonic symbol, composed of a drafter's compass and square centering a star, above ribbon-tied sprays of flowers and oak branches, the opposing side with an 'FL' monogram above further berried sprays, the lower section cut with narrow flutes, the interior incrusted with a bust-length portrait of General Jackson in profile
3in. (7.7cm.) high

拍品专文

Cf. Paul Jokelson, Sulphides The Art of Cameo Incrustation, New York, 1968, p. 80, fig. 71 for an incrusted Baccarat medallion with a labelled sulphide of General Jackson
It is interesting to note that in the Presidential race of 1831 an anti-Masonic party was formed and was defeated by Jackson.