Set of Art Deco Italian Table Lamp Shades with Three Large Murano Glass Grapes

Spectaculair looking table lamp depicting a hand painted porcelain rock base and branch with an eye-catching tropical blue bird on top of it. Ornamented with tole branches and leaves...

1950s set of three blue opaline glass items. Made in Italy The bright blue milk, opaline or cased glass is heavy and thick, all items have a decorative orm...

Very cute little 1950s white opaline glass pear or gourd shaped lidded jar in three pieces, a scalloped plate in which the scalloped bottom dish fits ...

Very decorative 1960s Italian hand carved orange alabaster smoking set by Romano Bianchi. Consists of a heavy ashtray, also very useful as trinket dish or vide-poche. A table lighter (which also fits a wax tea light candle). And a very pretty lidded hinged box, which originally would have held cigarettes but also could be used to keep jewellery or little treasures in. Cigarette sales peaked in the 20th century, people were allowed to smoke in the office, the cinema, at restaurants, indoors and outdoors. Once women were able to smoke freely, smoking became a social norm and in general it was considered an act of elegance and sophistication. Businessmen in the 1960s were rarely seen without a cigarette in their hand. So needles to say you needed pretty smoking accessories...