RED HYALITE PAPERWEIGHT

Bohemia, around 1860
Paperweight in the form of a closed book, of cut red hyalite glass. The upper side centrally set with an oval medallion containing a brightly painted miniature of a girl in three-quarter profile. Further decorated with coloured glass stones and beads, and with gilding. 12,5x8 cm Condition C. Chip to the upper right corner; some beads missing from the border of the medallion and the book, as well as from the cross on the spine.