Charles Cartlidge and Company
Paperweight
1847-1855
Scroll
Charles Cartlidge and Company
Paperweight
1847-1855
Physical Qualities
Porcelain, enamel, gilt, 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 x 2 in. (9.8 x 6.4 x 5.1 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased as the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Newhall III, Owings Mills, Maryland
Object Number
2004.10
Molded porcelain spaniel dog, seated on rectangular porcelain cushion or squab. Spaniel has black highlights, and cushion has gilt line border or edging.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2004; Hanes & Ruskin, Old Lyme, Connecticut.
Near identical paperweight, presented to American author Washington Irving, in the Collection of Historic Hudson Valley, formerly Sleepy Hollow Restoration/150 White Plains Road/Tarrytown, New York 10591. H.H.V. example illustrated in "American Porcelain: 1770-1920," Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989, #23, page 114.
Also illustrated in: "A Cross-Section of the Collection: Sleepy Hollow Restorations," Joseph T. Butler, Sleepy Hollow Restorations Press, 1983, page 253. In this entry, the following acknowledgement letter from Washington Irving to the presenter of his like paperweight is cited: "My Dear Sir: - Accept my thanks for the beautiful little dog which you had the kindness to send me, as a specimen of the porcelain manufacture of Mr. Charles Cartlidge. It does great credit to his factory. You say it is intended to guard my bank notes; if it can keep mine from vanishing it will prove a more effectual guard than any I have as yet set over them. Yours very truly, Washington Irving."
Also illustrated in: "A Cross-Section of the Collection: Sleepy Hollow Restorations," Joseph T. Butler, Sleepy Hollow Restorations Press, 1983, page 253. In this entry, the following acknowledgement letter from Washington Irving to the presenter of his like paperweight is cited: "My Dear Sir: - Accept my thanks for the beautiful little dog which you had the kindness to send me, as a specimen of the porcelain manufacture of Mr. Charles Cartlidge. It does great credit to his factory. You say it is intended to guard my bank notes; if it can keep mine from vanishing it will prove a more effectual guard than any I have as yet set over them. Yours very truly, Washington Irving."
