Covered Vessel with the Royal Arms of France

Object Name: 
Covered Vessel with the Royal Arms of France

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Object Name: 
Covered Vessel with the Royal Arms of France
Place Made: 
Accession Number: 
64.3.10 C
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1750
Primary Description: 
Opalescent white non-lead glass; blown, enameled. (a) Baluster form, with flared rim, waisted neck, bulbous base; polychrome enameled decoration, with wavy and straight bands on the neck; oval blue shield containing three yellow-and-red fleurs-de-lis, with yellow-and-red petal frame, on the side; the remainder of the sides filled with foliate scrolls; short, straight stem; conical foot with folded rim; small pontil mark. (b) Stopper of globular form with long, hollow tube; the sides of the globular tops with elaborate polychrome-enameled foliate scrollwork.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Le Comte-Ullmann, Former Collection
1964
Category: 
Bernard Perrot 1640-1709 (2010) p. 187; BIB# 115618
Recent Important Acquisitions, 7 (1965) illustrated, cover, frontispiece; BIB# AI97743