Small Pink Opaline Box with Empire Motifs

Opaline crystal cup on a wide, flared foot. It is decorated with a gilded and blue neo-Gothic frieze and features wide bands of gold on the rim and foot. Produced by the Jean-Baptist...

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...

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...

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...

Antique Baccarat acid etched cameo glass box with leaf & vine motif and bronze mounts. Circa 1890 - 1910.

A beautiful hand-blown Italian Murano art glass and gold gilt metal vanity box, made in Italy. Murano glass exterior is matte in a pink grapefruit/blood orange hue, and lid is gold g...

A gorgeous box made of blue glass beautifully decorated with white details. Frame of brass. original lock and key. Made during 19th Century Russian Empire period. Small lockable boxes...

A fine antique French cut glass casket. In the Charles X style. In the form of a seashell with a bronze mounted lid. Simply a great French cu...