Description:
Pair of Victor Saglier Ewers
Enameled art glass and silvered metal
France, c. 1900
Each frosted glass bottle enamel and gilt decorated with purple and pink flowers, shell-form hinged lid and rocaille collar with mask, C-scroll handle, mounted on a five-prong pierced rocaille foot, the handles stamped with maker's mark, the glass unmarked, ht. 11 1/2 in.
Note: Cristallerie Depatin and Legras & Cie also worked under the name of Mont Joye. Although the glass is unmarked, this may be its attribution.
Estimate $200-400
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