Rare Pair Of Large 19th Century Glass Vases

The fixed under glass is a very particular technique, difficult and delicate, which consists of "painting upside down" on a glass plate, or as is the case of these two magnificent vases, on another glass support. The artist begins by painting the subtleties, the details of the work to finish with the backgrounds. This technique is linked to the glass industry and practiced since the Middle Ages in Venice. It is a city art reserved for an elite until the beginning of the 19th century or the inspirations of the subjects represented are those of a more popular art. This large pair of vases, probably English, in blown glass is in the taste of the chinoiserie very fashionable in the years 1820, 1830, we find exoticism, chimerical in very chosen and soft colors. They are in a very good state of conservation, neither crack nor chip. Everything is perfectly original in blown glass.