Pair of 19th Century Opaline Vases

Baluster shaped vase in white, enameled opaline, with a multicolored decoration featuring bouquets of flowers on a white background. Gilded arabesques and latticework surround the bo...

Bulb-bottomed vase with long neck decorated with multicolored enamel and gold. It is embellished with arabesques, flowers and latticework patterns in orientalist taste on a marbled Bordeaux background. Remnants of a mark underneath. The fascination with the orient and its exotic decoration dominated the 18th-19th centuries. It was China that started the enthusiasm for the costumes and artistic shapes that came from faraway lands. However, as a result of conquests and colonial Expansion, this fascination saw the displacement of its origins. During the 18th century, Chinese and Turkish styles invaded the salons and gardens of royalty as well as affluent esthetes who prided themselves on their taste for The Orient. From then on, baths were Turkish, furniture was lacquered, Persian tapestries...

Pair of perfume bottles with their ball-shaped stoppers in “bulle de savon” (soap bubble) Opaline. They are each decorated with a frieze of gol...

Conical flask on a high foot in opaline crystal with its flattened stopper. A star-shaped pattern highlighted with small flowers decorates the top of the stopper, and gilt bands unde...