A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED BACCARAT OPALINE AND PINK-OVERLAY GLASS ICE-PAILS
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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED BACCARAT OPALINE AND PINK-OVERLAY GLASS ICE-PAILS

CIRCA 1867

Fermé8 October 2020

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED BACCARAT OPALINE AND PINK-OVERLAY GLASS ICE-PAILS
CIRCA 1867
Each of krater form, acid-etched front and back with Bacchic figures, surrounded by scrollwork and anthemia, the rims with bands of berried Laurel and stiff-leaf tips, raised on four foliate scroll feet
9 7/8 in. (25 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 20 October 2009, lot 190.

Note du spécialiste

A punch-set similarly decorated and exhibited by the Cristalleries de Baccarat at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867 is in the Corning Museum of Glass. See J.S. Spillman, 'Glass from the World's Fairs 1851-1904' Exhibition Catalogue, 1986, p. 23, fig. 8.