PAPER WEIGHT
Creator(s): Unknown (Manufacturer) , Nikolai Ivanovich Liberikh (Attributed to)
Currently in storage
About this object
This desk sculpture is composed of a piece of rock crystal intended to look like a block of ice upon which a gilt bronze figure and a seal are mounted. The kneeling figure, an Aleut seal hunter, is wearing a hooded fur coat and boots and holds a pick ax in his proper right hand.
- Object name:
- PAPER WEIGHT
- Made from:
- Bronze -- rock crystal
- Made in:
- Russia
- Date made:
- late 19th-early 20th Century
- Size:
- 4 × 8 × 6 1/4 in. (10.2 × 20.3 × 15.9 cm)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 14.297
- Signature marks:
- Credit line:
- Gift of John Pender, 1998