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Object NameLarge Rectangular Glass Table

Maker Compagnie des Verreries et Cristalleries de Baccarat

Made FromLead glass, bronze, silvered metal; steel probably, marble

Date1889

Place MadeFrance, Baccarat

TechniqueBlown, Pressed, cut, assembled

SizeOverall H: 167 cm, L: 160 cm

Accession Number79.3.155 A

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

On ViewEuropean Gallery

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

Glass furniture became more popular and complex in the late 1800s. Factories competed to produce elaborate objects for display at world’s fairs. Baccarat first exhibited large glass furniture at the Paris exposition of 1878. Its spectacular display at that exposition was shown in a gallery called the Salon of the Thousand and One Nights. The products of this French company set the tone for design and execution of European glass for decades to come. The table was one of four made by the company in 1889. The cut glass boat was designed for Baccarat by the sculptor Charles Vital-Cornu (1851-1927) in 1900, and it was displayed with the table for the first time at the 1900 world’s fair in Paris.

Physical DescriptionColorless lead glass; blown, pressed, cut, assembled. Large, rectangular table, 4 legs, with stretcher; on metal frame; inset flat, rectangular cream-colored sheet of polished marble set into top; rectangular glass panels with raised molded gadrooning fastened to metal table rim; the skirt with rectangular plaques molded in a series of bull's-eyes; the legs with hollow, blown, molded and cut ball knops with swirled heavy ribbing alternating with annulated knops, slipped over metal legs; ball feet with spiral ribbing; square molded and cut capitals; stretcher with two U-shaped ends and straight bar joining the U-shaped ends; ends covered with curved, hollow bars of square cross-section, with molded bull's eyes on sides, stylized foliage on top and bottom; large cut finials mounted at side and on top of cubical boxes at centers of U-shaped arms, where central bar attaches; central bar covered at with spirally-ribbed tubes, meeting a hexagonal box at center with molded bull's eyes on sides; large cut finial on top, with spiral ribbing on large ball knop at bottom, small ball knop above, ribbed ovoid top finial; disk base with cut concentric rings; cut disk with concentric rings and ball with swirled ribbing mounted on underside of center box. Design no. 4923.
Provenance

Source Axel de Heeckeren - 1979-12-19

Source Claude Boisgirard - 1979-12-19

Former Collection Baccarat