'ECHOES OF HELLAS', A WHEEL-CARVED AND ENAMELED GLASS BOWL

BURGUN, SCHVERER & CIE., CIRCA 1890

细节

'ECHOES OF HELLAS', A WHEEL-CARVED AND ENAMELED GLASS BOWL
Burgun, Schverer & Cie., circa 1890
The thick honey/amber glass internally streaked with green, finely wheel-carved to depict three mythological scenes, the figures enameled in red and white, the backgrounds heightened in gilt, reserved against a ground carved with foliate and geometric designs, enameled in turquoise, red and green, with gilt accents, gilded signature BS&C VERRIERE D'ART DE LORRAINE and Dpose, and with the Cross of Lorraine and a thistle
4in. (10cm.) high, 9in. (23cm.) diameter

拍品专文

In addition to its innovative series of laminated floral vases, the firm Burgun Schverer & Cie., under the design leadership of Dsir Christian, introduced in the early 1890s a group of mythologicals based on the illustrations by Walter Crane for the 1887 book, Echoes of Hellas by George C. Warr. Jules Traub has written that Christian literally copied using tracing paper onto glass Crane's illustrations. Warr's book translates select passages from Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey, as originally performed in a play written by Warr in 1883 entitled "The Tale of Troy." A devoted student of Morris and Ruskin, Crane's vignettes capture the essence of each scene. In this bowl the side photographed is of the seafaring Ulysses; a second scene depicts Hermes and Priam and their attendants carrying presents to the Scaean gateway to meet Achilles; the third scene is a montage of fighting warriors, symbolizing the Wrath of Achilles.