Antique Set of Blue Enameled Opaline Glass Made for Islamic Market, 19th Century

This wonderful collection of Bohemian glass objects was created in the late 19th Century for the Persian market. The set—which includes three vases, one huqqa base...

19th Century Antique French Blue Opaline Glass Bowl. Fine quality. Hand painted with gilding enamel decoration, and wavy rim.

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...

A set of five 19th century French globular form amber glass demijohn bottles with air bubbles typical of handblown glass. Circa 1850-1860 Dimensions (left to right): 18"H x 16" Diam...

Pair of green opaline perfume flasks with pointed stoppers and flower-shaped saucers. The stoppers and flasks are decorated with diamond-shaped patterns that have gilded stripes outl...

Petite pair of Renaissance style gilded and enameled glass vases - hand painted with scrolling acanthus leaves and flowers with banded borders to the top edges (resembling stained gl...

This magnificent pair of hand blown "Sevres Blue" opaline cased crystal vases are totally encrusted with thick hand painted enamel decoration. Each large bird is perched atop branche...

Pair of antique 19th century bohemian green cut glass vases Bohemian, circa 1870 Dimensions: Height 23cm, diameter 13cm Cut from uranium glas...

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...

A fine antique glass flask. In cobalt blue with pulled white marbrie loops to the surface, a tooled neck, and a rough pontil base. Simply a wond...