19th Century Charles X Blue Opaline Cup

Oval blue porcelain cup with polychromatic decoration composed of a large cartouche with gilt-decorated borders depicting a man and a young woman in a landscape, sitting on the grass...

Charles X light-blue opaline ewer with a high handle and resting on a circular foot. Its delicate color and the purity of its elegant form are representat...

A white opaline cup on small pedestal and gilt bronze mount finely chiseled with flowers. Both handles shaped in pigeons resting on curved branches and bent to drink. The pure shape and silhouette, like the delicate colour give this cup a great elegance. Called "opal crystals" from the Empire, and later "opalines", this name designates several types of coloured glassware produced in France in the 19th century. The oldest opal crystals are lead glasses mixed with dyes. The old opacification recipes adapted to lead glass produce an opalescent material, known as "soap bubble" or "soapy opaline". Opal colours" are the other shades that result from the addition of metal oxides to this basic opal composition. These lenses, which are pink in colour, called "hydrangea" and then "pigeon's throat", obtained with gold salts, or "turquoise" blue thanks to cobalt or copper oxides, are often mounted in gilt bronze. The beautiful frames, finely chiselled with palmettes, interlacing or gothic-inspired motifs, house...

Turquoise blue opaline flask and its flattened stopper that is decorated with a radiant pattern. Gold stripes decorate the rim and body, alongside gilt, silvered, and blue bouquets o...

English Sugar or Candy Bowl in Silver-Plate and Blue Opaline Glass, circa 1880-1900. The Sheffield Silver base has an amazing pearl string handle.

Blue Alabaster Opaline Glass Centerpiece/Bowl with Gilded Enamel Decoration – 19th Century This exquisite blue alabaster opal glass bowl, crafted with ...

Elegant ring holder or videpoche from the Napoleon III period. The ring holder is in blue opaline enhanced with several golden edgings on the foot. The cup is illustrated with golde...

Sèvres porcelain cup and saucer from rom the 'Service fond beau blue, frise capraire en or' of the Emperor Louis Philippe at the Tuiler...