Western European Art Glass and Ceramics

"Peach Blossom" vase

    "Peach Blossom" vase

    France

    1920 (design

    Argy-Rousseau Gabriel

    Multi-colored glass; pâte-de-verre (glass paste), etching

    Height 14 cm, rim diameter 8.3 cm, base diameter 6 cm

    Cameo-press mark on the body: “G. Argy-Rousseau”; on the bottom: “144/0”

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    Ovoid-shaped vase with a smoothly narrowing rim and base, made of multi-colored glass. The walls of the vessel are decorated with an expressive high-relief ornamentation of spreading branches with blooming peach blossoms. The blossoms are rendered in a rich coral-red shade with a yellowish center, the leaves are executed in muted greenish tones, and the branches are in gray.

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