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Pair of crystal melissa water bottles
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Pair of crystal melissa water bottles
With their bronze-mounts of Troubadour style
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Object N° 1135

Pair of molded crystal bottles with twisted decoration, in their chiseled patinated bronze mounts of troubadour style with decoration of Gothic arches, resting on a round base.

Good condition, miss their stoppers.

Charles X period (1824-1830).

H. 29 cm.

Related works

Similar examples called "rouleaux" can be found in an anonymous 19th century engraving kept at the Museum of Decorative Arts of Paris (inv. CD 3852.16, see illustration).

Literature

Elsa Cau, Le style Troubadour, l'autre romantisme, ed. Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2017.