Early 19th Century Charles X White Opaline Cup with Birds

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...

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....

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...

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...

Pair of white, translucent opaline perfume bottles with their ball-shaped stoppers. The ormolu mounts are sculpted with a frieze of interlacing on the stopper and water leaves on the...

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...

This complete and original handblown opaline crystal water set sits perfectly on the circular matching tray. Each piece has hand-painted gilded decor...

High quality perfume bottle and stopper in blue opaline glass with gold enamel decoration beautifully shaped circular body features gilding highlights and a continuous line hand-pai...

Antique late-19th Century Victorian silver plated mounted on coromandel tantalus, the interior comprising three cut crystal decanters with stoppers...

Pair of Blue and Gold Opaline Cups, 19th Century, Napoleon III period. A pair of 19th century Napoleon III period blue and gold opaline goblets. h: 12cm, l: 13cm

An exceptional, fine and impressive antique European silver mounted coconut drinking cup; an addition to our diverse silverware collection. This exceptional antique silver mounted coconut cup has a circular rounded form onto a circular pedestal foot. The upper portion of the cup is encircled with an impressive, applied silver border to the rim accented with bands of tooled decoration above a shaped border in junction with the drinking vessel. The antique coconut...

White Chalice cup is an original decorative object realized in the 19th century by the Giustiniani manufacture in Naples, Italy. Del Vecchio factory. Th...