Lot Essay
See Christine Vincendeau, Les Opalines, Luçon, 1998, p. 108 for examples of vases from the atelier Jean-François Robert with flower painting and a similar torsade at the rim.
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MID-TO-LATE 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY JEAN-FRANÇOIS ROBERT
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A PAIR OF BACCARAT OPALINE VASES
MID-TO-LATE 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY JEAN-FRANÇOIS ROBERT
Each of baluster form, the rim with an applied torsade cobalt-blue ribbon within spiraling latticino threads, finely painted with three panels of loose bouquets featuring poppies, roses, convolvulus, irises and other flowers between bands of gilt foliate scrollwork above a turquoise-ground band, the foot and rim enriched with further bands of gilding
15½ in. (39.3 cm.) high (2)
MID-TO-LATE 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY JEAN-FRANÇOIS ROBERT
Each of baluster form, the rim with an applied torsade cobalt-blue ribbon within spiraling latticino threads, finely painted with three panels of loose bouquets featuring poppies, roses, convolvulus, irises and other flowers between bands of gilt foliate scrollwork above a turquoise-ground band, the foot and rim enriched with further bands of gilding
15½ in. (39.3 cm.) high (2)