Phillipe Joseph Brocard 1796 - 1896 A very fine associated pair of Islamic enameled glass bottled vases Paris, circa 1850

of turquoise, white, cobalt blue and gilt enamels, each vase is with a long slender tapering neck and collar with everted lip, sitting on a high conical flared foot, decorated in the round with interlacing arabesques and foliates, each signed Brocard to the underside.

Comparative literature:

J. Rudoe, Decorative arts 1850-1950: a c, 2nd ed. (London, The British Museum Press, 1994); M. Queiroz Ribeiro and J. Hallett, Mamluk glass in the Calouste Gallery (Lisbon, 1999);

 

 

The undersides have been pierced where the signature is enamelled for electricity
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A pair of vases of pyriform with bulbous bodies, was sold at Sotheby's London, October 10, 2006, lot 369 for £34,850. Examples of Islamic style enameled glass vases by Brocard can be seen in the major National museums worlwide.