A gilt-bronze mounted Baccarat gilded glass vase, circa 1880

decorated in the Japanese-style, of rectangular form with waisted circular neck and foot, decorated in raised gold with flowering branches, upon a modelled gilt-bronze base, inscribed numeral 3 to underside of vase,

There is some scattered wear to the gilded decoration on the glass. A top corner of the vase has perhaps been polished down. The vase could benefit from being cleaned.
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The vase form features in a lithograph commemorating Baccarat's success at the Paris Expositions of 1867 and 1878, see Dany Sautot, Baccarat, Une manufacture française, Paris, 2003, p. 72 where the lithograph is reproduced. For mounted vases of this form with intaglio-engraved decoration see the pair sold, Sotheby's New York, 26th October 2010, lot 211; and a single vase, Sotheby's Olympia, 6th July 2005, lot 197.