TWO BACCARAT OVERLAY AND ACID-ETCHED OVIFORM VASES

CIRCA 1865, GILT 5M TO ONE

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TWO BACCARAT OVERLAY AND ACID-ETCHED OVIFORM VASES
Circa 1865, gilt 5m to one
The matt opaque ground overlayed in brilliant cobalt-blue and acid-etched with a figure of Bacchus in a tiger-drawn chariot, the reverse with Ariadne in a goat-drawn chariot, flanked by scrolling anthemion, the necks with Greek key-pattern, the tapering lower sections with a band of flutes between bands of key-pattern and Vitruvian scrolls
17in. (44.5cm.) high, the tallest (2)

Lot Essay

A punch-set similarly decorated and exhibited by the Cristallerie de Baccarat at the Paris Fair of 1867 is in the Corning Museum of Glass, see Jane Shadel Spillman, 'Glass from the World's Fairs 1851-1904' Exhibition Catalogue, 1986, p. 23, fig. 8. See also anon. sale, Christie's London, 4 June 1991, lot 186 for a single example.

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