Adelina PATTI paper weight
Applied Arts
Inventory number
2021.6.21.4.AA.DC.C1867.FRAttribution:
Charles REUTLINGER (German, Karlsruhe 1816 - 1888 Francfort-sur-le-Main)Description
Glass paperweight with a black and white photograph represented the 19th-century famous opera singer Adelina PATTI (1843-1919). She is wearing a beret with fringe of jet pearl and wearing a matching coat and richly worked.The original photographic portrait was made by the photograph Charles REUTLINGER (1816-1888) for the occasion of the Exposition Universelle of 1867 in Paris where Patti sang in Rossini's The Barber of Seville.
Materials
GlassCollodion
Origin
circa 1867 FranceDimensions
Width : 2.2 cmLength : 6 cm
Height : 10 cm