cordial glass
Object Name8 Piece Liquor Set
Maker
Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis
Made FromGlass, Enamel
Date1870-1880
Place MadeFrance, Saint-Louis
TechniqueBlown, applied, gilded, enameled
SizeSee Individual Records
Accession Number99.3.128
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical Description2 Square Carafes and 6 Stemmed Liquor Glasses. (A) Carafe and Stopper. Colorless glass; blown, applied, gilded and enameled. a) Square body rounding up to cylindrical neck and rim with pinched spout, applied handle, wide gold band from rim about 2.3 cm wide with thin band beneath it; decoration of enameled gold flowers with touches of brick red on body and neck b) Stopper square finial tapering down and then flaring out to short tapering cylindrical shank, decorated with gilt band on top edge of shank and square at top of finial. (B) Carafe and Stopper. Colorless glass; blown applied gilded and enameled. a) Square body rounding up to the cylindrical neck and rim with pinched spout, applied handle, wide gold band from rim. (C-H) 6 Liquor Glasses. Colorless glass; blown, applied, gilded, enameled square gilded rim rounding to base of bowl atop slightly waisted solid stem and doomed foot with gilded band at edge, decoration of gilded and enameled flowers and leaves on two sides.Provenance
Former Collection
Velmerig Antiquitate
Parent/Child