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Artist/Maker	Baccarat (manufacturer)
Place of origin	France (made)

Opaline glass moulded in relief with convulvulus and painted in enamel colours and gilding.

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Categories	Glass Vases
Object type	Vase
Materials and techniques	Mould-blown glass Glass
Brief description	Glass Vase, France, possibly made by Cristalleries de Baccarat, 1860-1870
Physical description	Opaline glass moulded in relief with convulvulus and painted in enamel colours and gilding.
Style	19TH CONT
Gallery label	VASE France: about 1860-1865 Opaline glass Moulded in relief with convolvulus and painted in enamel colours and gilding 4442-1901 Moulded wares were made by most major French glassworks including Baccarat, St. Louis and Choisy-le-Roi. Opal glass is thought to have first been made at Murano in the 1600s, although the name "opaline" was coined by the Baccarat factory in 1823. It is, traditionally, a slightly translucent glass, opacified with ashes of calcined bones, and may also be coloured with metallic oxides. This example combines several typical techniques employed with such glass with a simple, naturalistic style popular in the French factories, particularly Baccarat, in the 1860s. Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street
Credit line	Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street
Subject depicted	Flower
Collection	Ceramics Collection
Accession number	4442-1901

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Record created	December 13, 1997
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1032/vase-baccarat/

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