Victorian Bird Opaline Glass Vase
You must be a subscriber, and be logged in to view price and dealer details.
Subscribe Now to view actual auction price for this item
When you subscribe, you have the option of setting the currency in which to display prices to $Au, $US, $NZ or Stg.
- Opalescent / Opaline - The descriptions of glass as "opalescent" or "opaline" are often used interchangeably by dealers and auction houses. At the upper end of the scale, opalescent / opaline glass can refer to the opal-like milky blue glass produced by Lalique and Etling. It also refers to the pressed glass mass produced in Britain from the 1840s with a milky white edge as sugar-basins, milk jugs and vases were made in great quantities for the mass market, and were sold at fairs along with Staffordshire figures and wooden dolls. A less common type of opalescent glass was made from two layers of glass blown into a mould.
- Victorian Period - The Victorian period of furniture and decorative arts design covers the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901. There was not one dominant style of furniture in the Victorian period. Designers used and modified many historical styles such as Gothic, Tudor, Elizabethan, English Rococo, Neoclassical and others, although use of some styles, such as English Rococo and Gothic tended to dominate the furniture manufacture of the period.
The Victorian period was preceded by the Regency and William IV periods, and followed by the Edwardian period, named for Edward VII (1841 ? 1910) who was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India for the brief period from 1901 until his death in 1910.
This item has been included into following indexes:
Visually similar items
Two Wucai Chinese Month cups, the cups in underglaze blue and enamel colours decorated with floral symbols of the respective months accompanied by lines of poetry, both with apocryphal Kangxi marks underside, height 5.5 cm
A pair of shallow blue and white bowls, Kangxi mark, 19th century, decorated with prunus, 11 cm (2). Provenance: Hong Kong early 1980s
A good matched pair of Chantilly Kakiemon Rafraichissoirs, circa 1730, of typical form with branch and leaf handles, each painted with squirrel and kakiemon flowers, red hunting horn mark on one, 9.5 cm high, (2)
A rose Mandarin beaker and a famille rose teapot, late Qing Dynasty, late 19th century and after, the richly ornamented beaker with continuous figural scenes to the body beneath a floral and bird border, with twin twist handles, lid absent; and a finely ri