Lot 393
393
A GREEN GLASS BALUSTER VASE enamelled with holly leaves and with red glass berries in relief, late 19th Century; , 4¾in. (12cm.) high; a French opaline bell-shaped tumbler painted in colours with swags of flowers enriched in chased gilding, the lower part cut with flutes;; and another similar(both damaged), circa 1825, both 3¾in. (9.5cm.) high (3)

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A GREEN GLASS BALUSTER VASE enamelled with holly leaves and with red glass berries in relief, late 19th Century; , 4¾in. (12cm.) high; a French opaline bell-shaped tumbler painted in colours with swags of flowers enriched in chased gilding, the lower part cut with flutes;; and another similar(both damaged), circa 1825, both 3¾in. (9.5cm.) high (3)

Lot Essay

Cf. a similar pair of tumblers painted by J.-B. Desvignes sold in these Rooms, 9 June 1981, lot 208. See also Yolande Amic, L'Opaline Francaise au XIX Siècle, Paris, 1952, pl. XVII for examples of opaline wares with similar decoration

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