Bohemian Art Nouveau Harrach Cream and Gilded Classical Claret Jug, 1880

Unusual Loetz Ophheus pattern stylised Jug/Vase -The well documented Opheus pattern is rare; usually it has an Olympia (clear) ground with regularly wound light blue threads sometime...

A vibrant Art Nouveau orange/pink over clear Harrach cameo vase. Depicting flowers highlighted with gilding. This style of Cameo was taken by Harrach to the 1900 Paris exhibition. Their stylized cameo technique employed an icicle effect -visible just below the orange band in most of the pictures. Harrach has been the backbone of Bohemian, and possibly European, glass for the last 300 years. It proudly celebrates its tri-centenary in 2012. Before Ludwig Moser was allowed to have his own Glassworks he, like almost everyone else in the region, bought his blanks from Harrach. In fact we will probably never know how much glass, supposedly made my other great glass makers of Europe, were in fact made and finished in the Harrach Glassworks. We do know that vast ranges of Legras was made by Harrach, probably under licence and possibly the majority of the glass we think of as Fratelli Tosso...

Art Nouveau French Faience Pitcher Luneville Circa 1900 Model "Guipure" signed Keller & Guerin Luneville.

Nice example of an ironstone pitcher, hand painted from copper plate transfers in the Chinese Manduran pattern depicting peacocks and abundant floral decoration in a Famille Rose sty...