Early 19th Century Opaline Crystal Cup with Birds

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...

Basket-shaped cup in blue opaline decorated with gilded festoons and stripes. The gilded and sculpted bronze handle is in the shape of two intertwined snakes. Intricate chasing work....

Pair of perfume bottles with their ball-shaped stoppers in “bulle de savon” (soap bubble) Opaline. They are each decorated with a frieze of gol...

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...

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...

White opaline crystal candlestick with gold and blue painted decorations, featuring garlands of forget-me-nots, roses, and foliage. The rim, neck, and heel are encircled by gold band...

Blue alabaster opal glass, fine quality of the 19th century glass manufacture, profuse hand-painted with rich and impressive gilded enamel decoration, t...

Opaline Alabaster glass with turned-out wavy rim. Enamel and gilding decoration featuring vines and grapes. Bohemia, 19th century.

Exceptional turquoise Opaline Glass serving dish with gilding and enamel decoration stands on a 5-feet base features turned-out scalloped rim very ...

Presenting an excellent display of French history: the kidney-shaped, double scallop-shell, transparent, gilded, milky-white Opaline glass serving dish...

19th century Anglo-Irish cut crystal footed bowl. Alternating cut prisms with excellent cutting throughout. Round stepped base on square plinth...

Early Swedish 19th Century blue glass candy bowl or dish. This type of glass bowl was typically used for yoghurt and other dairy products.