Decorator, Les Collections, Celebres, D'Oeuvres D'Art, Vase A Parfums, Verre De Venise, From the Collection de M La Baronne S de Rothschild, Plate 17, 1864

Date: 1864

Engraver: Delatre

Published by Goupil and Co, Editors, in Paris

Paper Size: 445 x 305mm

Print Size: 95 x 160mm

Condition: Good

Technique: Copperplate Engraving, later hand colouring

Price: $180

Description: 

USUALLY made for dressing, most earthenware Italian can be of no use. Such is the vase that we publish. Its shape makes it suitable for containing & pouring liquids, but the obliquely pierced oval holes in the throat which hollow out above the body seem to have it above all des- Using a decoration that Bernard Palissy sometimes developed beyond measure, the Urbino potter has placed on the neck, which is supported by a mask, a frog threatened by the heads of two snakes whose united bodies form a handle. designed to allow perfumes to evaporate. On the belly & on the lid, both enameled in white, slight grotesques have been sown following a symmetrical design. The contours are traced in blue & most often in reddish brown by hands highly trained in such whims, & the interiors are modeled in bistre placed on the shaded side with a few touches of blue or yellow. Oves & current designs in a more solid bistre tone hem the lid as well as the foot & the opening of the vase. Carried on a circular foot by means of a baluster stem, the cylindrical glass that we reproduce has a button lid. Its very sober decoration is composed, on the lid, of a light interlacing of gold threads which, from place to place, raises a fleuron. On the cup, there is a frieze formed of long foliage in gold threads wear some hares launched at a gallop, imitation of certain decorations of the Orient. From this belt are suspended garlands of flowers & slopes of fruit, interrupted by large crests of coats of arms, almost indecipherable today. But the crests surmounted by two opposing elephant trunks are too German in appearance for us not to think that this glass was made at Murano on an order from beyond the mountains