A paperweight with the head of a man, perhaps Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877)
French School
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
c. 1830 - 1850
Materials
Black and white marble
Measurements
88 x 102 mm; 178 mm (L)
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The Argory, County Armagh
NT 565247
Summary
Sculpture, marble; paperweight with a man’s head, perhaps Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877); probably French; c. 1830-1850. A marble paperweight in black marble, with for its handle a portrait of a man, possibly the French statesman Adolphe Thiers.
Full description
A marble paperweight in the form of a rectangular section of black marble. In the centre, a handle in white marble in the form of a man’s head. The identity of the man whose head forms the handle of this paperweight is unknown, but he is likely to have been a prominent politician or other figure with a public profile. It is quite possible that he is Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877), the French politician, who served as Prime Minister of France twice, in 1836 and 1840, and later became first President of the French Third Republic, between 1871 and 1873. Jeremy Warren November 2022
Provenance
By descent; Walter McGeough Bond (1908-86), by whom given to the National Trust in 1979.
Makers and roles
French School, sculptor