LATE 19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY AMERICAN

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EIGHT PRESS-MOULDED GLASS JAPANESE FAN-SHAPED CAKE PLATES
Late 19th century, possibly American
Moulded in the Japanese taste, with flowering branches interrupted by patterned ribbon within a beaded rim, comprising: two turquoise; two amber and four clear; together with a Smith Brothers (New Bedford, Mass.) pale-peach ground tapering cylindrical opaque white glass vase, circa 1885, signed Smith Bros., enamelled in the Baccarat style with two birds perched on prunus branches before roundels
8in. (20.2cm.) high, the vase (9)

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Lot Essay

Cf. In Pursuit of Beauty, Americans and the Aesthetic Movement, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition Volume, October 23, 1986, to January 11, 1987, p. 246, fig. 7.53 for a similar vase housed in The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, Institute of Glass, Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

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