Jim Peake
Head of Department
Lot 55
A pair of Baccarat pink overlay cameo wine coolers, circa 1870
5 June 2019, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge£10,000 - £15,000
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Fergus Gambon
Director
A pair of Baccarat pink overlay cameo wine coolers, circa 1870
Of U-shape with a swollen band below the rim and applied with looped handles, decorated with a pair of seated classical figures, the reverse with a dancing Bacchante, flanked by anthemion scrollwork below the handles, within formal borders and gilt line banding, 25cm high (2)
Footnotes
A similar wine cooler with acid cameo decoration in dark amber was sold by Bonhams 18 May 2016, lot 239, while a pair in rich blue was sold on 17 December 2008, lot 467. This shape, known as a Vase Cratère was introduced by Baccarat in 1867. The same technique of acid cameo work, created by the chemist Kessler, was used by Baccarat for the much acclaimed punch set with similar Bacchanalian figures, shown at the Paris Exposition Universalle in 1867, the first time that this technique was exhibited. See J S Spillman, Glass from World's Fairs 1851-1904, Corning Museum of Glass (1986), pp.21-22 and fig.8. See also Baccarat, La Légend du Cristal (2014), pp.48-49
