A Pair of Silver-Mounted Cut-Crystal Vases

Object Description

A Pair of Silver-Mounted Cut-Crystal Vases
By Cristalleries de Baccarat

Each vase made of crystal, of baluster form with silver rims, the square base supporting a tapering socle, the faceted body cut with hobnail cut pattern. The silver bearing the Minerva mark of purity, and each base with etched mark ‘Musee des cristalleries de Baccarat / 1821 – 1840 / reproduction.’
French, circa 1940

This model was re-issued by Baccarat in the twentieth century and appears in their catalogue of 1916.

Object History

Cristalleries de Baccarat takes its name from the town of Baccarat,  where it was founded in 1764 by royal permission of Louis XV,  in the midst of the forests of Lorraine, rich of wood necessary to burn in the kilns and to achieve high temperatures; by the early 19th century the production of the finest crystal was achieved, in various shapes and sizes to the most desired fashionable requirements – from elaborately decorated stemware to chandeliers, vases and the great ormolu mounted decorative pieces of the second half of the XIX century,  exported all over the world – and still today arguably the finest glass on the market.

Object Condition

Excellent condition

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