"Medicis Opaline Vase With Pigeon Throat "
Vase in the "medicis" shape. It is made of opal crystal in a hydrangea pink color, also called pigeon throat.
The color is very strong due to the thickness of the opaline.
The neck is bordered by a gilded bronze mount and chiseled with a water leaf decoration.
There are two black threads on one side of the vase, a common phenomenon in this first period of this color.
Indeed, it was obtained by adding gold salts to the crystal in the form of a precipitate, often causing imperfections in the material.
Height: 20 cm
Diameter at the neck: 14 cm
Diameter at the foot: 9.5 cm
Work of the Bercy crystal factory between 1810 and 1820
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