Object Description
This is a beautiful good size French alabaster and champlevé enamel wall hanging holy-water font, Circa 1820 in date.
The figured milky-white coloured alabaster backplate cross is mounted on a bronze base with a shaped brightly decorated champleve enamel cross above a lidded enamel holy water stoop.
It is engraved verso:
Clelie 27 Mai 1886
Provenance:
Chateau de Challain-la-Potherie, Clelie
(See photo)
Condition:
In excellent condition, please see photos for confirmation.
Dimensions in cm:
Height 27 cm x Width 15 cm x Depth 5 cm
Dimensions in inches:
Height 11 inches x Width 6 inches x Depth 2 inches
Champlevé Enameling
A decorative technique that fuses a powdered glassy material into a recess in a metal surface through the application of heat.
Enameling describes the technique of using heat to fuse frit, powdered glass, to the surface of a metal object. In champlevé enameling, a recess is etched, cast, or carved into the body of the metal substrate to be filled with frit.
Enameling is one of the oldest decorative techniques seen across cultures, and it was embraced by designers in the nineteenth century
Our reference: A5159