Antique Bohemian Enamelled Overlay Opaline Glass Vase, 19th Century

Exceptional ruby red overlay glass vase Ruby red clear glass with milky white opaline overlay Hand-painted with 24k matte and burnished gold forming flowers and leaves of gold all ...

Alabaster Opaline Biedermeier Glass, Milky White Color with Green Overlay Beautifully cut and richly decorated with hand-painted gilt enamel scrollwork Bohemia, 19th century.

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...

Very beautiful large interior vase made of elite high quality opaline glass. First half of the 20th century. France. Colourfully hand painted antique vase...