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Art Deco Pair of French Vases in Black Opaline Glass Hand Painted in Pure Gold

About the Item

We kindly suggest you read the whole description, because with it we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our objects. Wonderful pair of Art Deco vases in shiny black opaline glass; the shape is linear and decisive; for their manufacture, the master glassmakers used a white opaline glass then with the method of hot fusion coloring, they added small amounts of a metal oxide, in this case, cobalt-manganese, to obtain the perfect black, a color very difficult to achieve! This process ensures infinite durability to the color, which remains stable, unalterable, particularly vivid, homogeneous, and intense; at this point, the craftsman working exclusively by hand, with special tools has given the desired shape to the vases that were then put to cool; once cold a skillful painter-artist has spread, where he thought appropriate, the special paint from the sober Pompeian red color, then, in the remaining black spaces has painted in pure gold and with meticulous attention to detail and accurate, rural landscapes with jumping deer then finished the base and the neck of the vases with geometric decorations typical of Art Deco. At this point, the two vases were put back into a low-temperature oven to definitively fix all the colors and finally into the tempera oven where they cooled for many hours with wise slowness and patience. The two vases were made between 1930 and 1935 in an artisan workshop in Wimmenau, in the Vosges region, an area made famous by the important glassworks present in the area (Saint-Louis, Lalique, etc.). The high quality of the manufacture makes our vases unique and incomparable, elegant and refined, able to embellish and evaluate any type of environment. Opaline is slightly translucent glass, opacified by means of phosphates, sodium, and calcium chlorides with the addition of metallic oxides, thus obtaining various shades of colors from milky white to black; opaline glass is much less dense and opaque than lattimo glass (very similar to porcelain); Opaline glass is a French product that was created at the end of the 1700s-beginning of the 1800s in imitation of Murano and German semi-opaque glass from the 17th century and that reached its peak between 1820 and 1870 thanks to the production of French factories (Baccarat, Saint Louis and Choisy-le-Roy). From the 1800s onwards, opaline spread throughout the world with the handcrafted production of everyday objects. France, from ancient to modern times, is recognized as a producer of the best quality opaline glass. The two vases are in excellent condition. Measures diameter cm.12, height cm.24. For all our shipments we use special packaging materials (wooden crates, styrofoam, etc.) for maximum protection and safety of the objects.

Dimensions:

Height: 9.45 in (24 cm)Diameter: 4.73 in (12 cm)

Sold As:

Set of 2

Style:

Art Deco (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Opaline Glass,Hand-Painted

Place of Origin:

France

Period:

Mid-20th Century