POSSIBLY BROCARD, PARIS, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

There is an almost identical dish in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, bequeathed to the museum in 1891 by Edward C. Moore (Stefano Carboni and David Whitehouse, Glass of the Sultans, New York, 2001. p. 273, fig. 105). Both dishes are even broken and repaired in a similar way. The two dishes relate closely to a famous spittoon in the Cleveland Museum of Art (inv.1944.235) and to an almost identical example that was sold at Sotheby’s (18 October 2001, lot 97, sold for £2,093,500). The Cleveland spittoon has been re-attributed to the late 19th century, on the basis of a reported test result on the Sotheby’s example; the Metropolitan example remains catalogued on the website as 14th century.
This design was used by Brocard as a model for his signed works. A spittoon signed by Brocard and dated 1867 was offered at Sotheby’s, London, 24 October 2007, lot 351. The form was somewhat deeper, the glass body without bubbles, and the surface smooth, but the design is identical.