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Paperweight or sulphide in translucent and red cut crystal from Maison Baccarat *, decorated at its center with a crystallo-porcelain ** representing the President of the United States John Ftzgerald Kennedy, signed A. David 63, vintage twentieth century.
This clipboard is in good condition. It is not signed Baccarat but this model was released by the crystal in 1964.
A note: small defects in the crystal (see last photo), micro-scratches and slight wear of time, see photos.
is a crystal factory located in the municipality Baccarat in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, in Lorraine in France. In 1764 King Louis XV gave permission to found a glass factory in the city of Baccarat in Lorraine to the bishop of Metz Louis-Joseph Montmorency-Laval (1761-1802). The vast enclosure of the Compagnie des Cristalleries de Baccarat was almost identical with the small town of Baccarat. The production consisted of the manufacture of window panes, mirrors and glass services. After the French Revolution, the company collapsed until its collapse in 1806, when it was sold at auction to a merchant from Verdun. In 1816, the Verrerie was bought by an industrialist, Aimé-Gabriel d'Artigues (1773-1848). This was the beginning of the prestigious rise of the Baccarat Crystalworks. The real start of the company dates from its acquisition in 1822 by a wealthy Parisian, Pierre-Antoine Godard-Desmarest. Baccarat received his first royal commission in 1823 from King Louis XVIII. This was the beginning of a long series of orders for royal families and heads of state from all over the planet. It was also a period of strong international growth. In 1855 Baccarat won its first gold medal at the World Fair in Paris. From 1860 Baccarat deposited its trademark on its pieces. The brand was a label stuck on the pieces. The crystal production grew during this period, and Baccarat has built a world-wide reputation by producing high quality glasses, candlesticks, vases and perfume bottles.
** The crystallo-ceramics is a technique of decoration of the glass which was created towards the end of the 19th century. It consists in including in a crystal object a ceramic cameo which was previously molded and then finely chiselled by hand. (See ProAntic)
