Antique c1800\'s Ladies Opaline glass Dressing Table Set French? Brass? Mounts
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Antique c1800\'s Ladies Opaline glass Dressing Table Set French? Brass? Mounts:
$85.00
These are so delicate and beautiful and they look very OLD. I did not clean them. The sale is for the set of 3 bottles and the vase/mounted stand
They were bought from one dealer so I would like to keep them together as a set of 3 bottles and the mounted vase/basket. It is hard for me to date these because opaque white colored glass is sometimes called milk glass and sometimes Opaline glass. According to the internet Milk glass is very old and a favorite glass during the Georgian / victorian era. Much of the translucent opaline glass especially that which was mounted appears to be from France. Today the BBC roadshow had a similar looking mug with enameling that dated to the late 1700\'s. These pieces look like they could be c1780-1800 because of the hand made, hand painted, workmanship. To me they look like something you would find in a Georgian dressing room at the time of Martha Washington.
There are two large bottles one with a very rough pontil mark (the other polished) . One has a very long and skinny neck with a small opening, I think it is an early rosewater sprinkler. This bottle is 7\" high and shows tool marks where the glass maker held and worked the delicate neck. It has a smoothed pontil and is marked with the #30 in old script on the bottom. It has light green enameled beading and swags.
The other bottle is 8\" with a larger diameter. The 8\" bottle has a larger mouth and is highly enameled and jewel like it in its treatment. It has a rough unpolished pontil and an old english #4 painted on the base. The painting is so bright on this bottle it doesn\'t look like it got much use. Neither bottle has a stopper and I don\'t know if they were suppose to have stoppers, perhaps the stoppers were once cork.
The vase has a metal mount making it a basket and it appears to be the support for 2 small bottles. One bottle remains and is perfect. I don\'t know where the other went. The bottle design (painting) matches the front and back of the vase.
The vase stands 4 1/2\" tall and to the top of the brass/bronze metal handle is about 10\" . The vase base is about 4 1/2\" in diameter. The small bottle that fits in one of the loop holders has a black #1 in old script painted on the bottom. It also has a very large and rough pontil mark. I had the clear glass stopper and it fit perfectly so I added that (you can use it that way or not). The bottle has a puffy rim around the belly which keeps it from sliding through the metal holder. The bottle is about 5 1/2\" tall. The painting on the bottle and vase matches and is very beautiful with build up of paint (dots) to give it a jeweled effect. I see no damage to the glass of either piece (some wear to the gilding on the bottle lip). I did not clean them.
these are delicate glass which means I may have to add extra packaging or box each individually and then put them in a larger box as a group to keep them in the same shipment. shipping is an estimate for continental USA zip codes given than CA and WA and AK seems to be more because of the distance from me (TN). I will do my best to hold down your shipping costs. I only ship via global shipping to locations outside the USA.
Antique c1800\'s Ladies Opaline glass Dressing Table Set French? Brass? Mounts:
$85.00