Opaline and Gilt Bronze Bowl, Antique Charles X Period.

Large Baccarat crystal and gilt bronze bowl, Art Nouveau period. A Baccarat crystal and gilt bronze bowl, signed on the bronze, Art Nouveau period, 1900. H: 9,5cm, W: 46cm, D: 32cm

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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...

This is an antique decorative bowl. A Japanese, bronze censer from the Edo period, dating to the 18th century, circa 1750. Pleasingly decorative dish with animal and scroll detail D...

Large Charles X period gilt bronze and malachite clock French, circa 1830 Measures: Height 62cm, width 54cm, depth 20cm This fine mantel clock is a superb example of the Charles...

A stunning white opaline 'Bulle de Savon' pedestal bowl, with gilt bronze rim and edging. This magnificent Charles X period glass bowl is manufactured from delicate opaline, a decora...