Rare Classic Biedermeier Gilded Count Buquoy Hyalith (True black) Scent Bottle

A vibrant Venetian medium-large glass scent bottle (just under 6 inches tall) with original glass stopper and metal hinged cap and chatelaine chain attachment. The glass sent bottle ...

A rare Victorian Harrach Gilded Ivory coloured glass Jug in the classic shape of a claret jug later this was more-commonly made in porcelain (in factories like Royal Worcester) this is made in glass and has the shape and pattern codes to it's base corresponding to Hararch (see last but one picture) it is decorated in gilding with a leaf and branch pattern to the body and a fluted gilded handle -a very rare piece of glass 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...

A vibrant Art Nouveau purple graduating to cream/ivory pair of deceptively heavy vases by Harrach decorated with raised gilding depicting blossoming branches - probably Prunus. Shape...

Fabulous Harrach vase in the classic Victorian style with their signature winged applications. The Vase is enamelled and gilded with a cute bird on snowy ...