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Lot Essay
For similar, see E. M. Stern, Roman, Byzantine, and Early Medieval Glass, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2001, p. 241.
Cora, Countess of Stafford was one of the American heiresses who famously crossed the Atlantic in the late 19th century to marry English nobility; her brief marriage to the 4th Earl of Stafford in 1898 followed her earlier marriage to Samuel J. Colgate, whose soap-making company she inherited upon his death. A lively society figure until her death in 1931, John Singer Sargent painted her portrait in 1908.
Cora, Countess of Stafford was one of the American heiresses who famously crossed the Atlantic in the late 19th century to marry English nobility; her brief marriage to the 4th Earl of Stafford in 1898 followed her earlier marriage to Samuel J. Colgate, whose soap-making company she inherited upon his death. A lively society figure until her death in 1931, John Singer Sargent painted her portrait in 1908.