Pair of French Empire Style Cut Glass and Bronze Mounted Vases

Pair standing.

Lampshade diameter 17 inches. Relatively modern nice quality in the French empire style.

With a removable cover with gallery and finial, tapered body with spigot lacking handle, all above the rectangular basin.

Featuring a male and female in traditional dress. The woman carrying a bucket and the man with a walking stick. Each with tall hats and with flower vases on their backs. Provenance ; The original Pickfair Estate in Beverly Hills Ca. From the personal collection of Mary Pickford...

While Napoleon's armies never conquered Russian, French taste did, and in a big way. This pair made at the Imperial Glass Workshop, under the Sponsorship of the Imperial Family would have been at home in a Paris drawing room as easily as in St. Petersburg. The Intense Ruby Red color of the Crystal is created by adding large quantities of gold to the molten glass before the object is created. The resulting color is dense yet full of light just like its namesake the precious jewel. The Dore bronze mounts use motifs taken from antiquity. Likewise, the shape of the handles is inspired by Greco-Roman amphora...

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