Attributed to Cristalleries de Baccarat

With Tiberian Design
Christie's, London, 29 March, 2000, lot 108
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Jean-Louis Curtis, Baccarat, London, 1992, p. 260 for relatable examples decorated in Japanese style
Dany Sautot, Baccarat, Une manufacture française, Paris, 2004, pp. 64-67 for relatable examples in Japanese style

Both vases and covers in very good condition. one vase with a later replacement securing bolt.
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These monumental vases were produced when Japonisme was the highly influential style in European decorative art. The superb quality of the pair can be compared to Baccarat vases decorated in this Japanese-style, that were being exhibited in the last decades of the 19th century; an ormolu mounted pair of Baccarat vases etched and gilt with similar scenes of herons was sold: Sotheby's, The Great Exhibitions sale, 31 October 2006, lot 631, whilst a further pair of the same design on blue-tinted ground were offered at Bonhams London, 30 May 2012, lot 89.