Pair of Monumental Crystal and Gilt Bronze Covered Vases by Baccarat Pair of Monumental Crystal and Gilt Bronze Covered Vases by Baccarat Pair of Monumental Crystal and Gilt Bronze Covered Vases by Baccarat
A Pair of Large Cut Glass and Ormolu-Mounted Vases and Covers

By Cristalleries de Baccarat, circa 1890

One vase with remnants of the firm’s paper label and stamped with the firm’s mark

Each vase: 39 ½ in (100.5 cm) high


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The form of the vase and its ormolu mounts reveal an awareness of Japanese and Chinese objets d'art, though the taste governing their production shows a tendency for the elaborate typical of the time. The style of cutting is in imitation of Chinese rock crystal carving. The decoration and the mount are also in the Japanese and Chinese taste popular from the 1880s onwards.

Similar etched and gilt-bronze mounted vases by Baccarat can be found in the Musée Baccarat, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum
of Art.