"Pair Of Melissa Water Flasks Mounted In Bronze Of Troubadour Style With Gothic Decor"
Pair of crystal melissa water bottlesWith their bronze-mounts of Troubadour style
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, The Troubadour style, the other romanticism, ed. Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2017.
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