Western European Art Glass and Ceramics

"Butterflies" bowl

    "Butterflies" bowl

    France, Paris

    1915

    Argy-Rousseau Gabriel

    Multi-layered glass, colorless glass; Pâte-de-verre (glass paste), mold casting

    Height 8 cm

    Cameo-press mark on the body: “G. Argy-Rousseau”.

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    The hemispherical bowl in a mint-green shade with streaks of purple and ochre-yellow tones, smoothly narrowing toward the base. The piece is made of translucent glass and decorated around the circumference of its body with three large high-relief figures of moths with spread wings. The color scheme of the moths' wings is built on a combination of rich sapphire-blue and emerald-green shades.

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    5390MC1473/ДПИ