Paperweight
Category
Metalwork
Date
Unknown
Materials
Bronze and Blue John
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Saltram, Devon
NT 871623
Summary
19th century paperweight consisting of a block of Blue John (Derbyshire Spar) mounted with a chiselled bronze cockerel.
Provenance
At Saltram by 1957 and given to NT as part of the endowment by Montagu Brownlow Parker (1878-1962), 5th Earl of Morley