Description

Height: 43cm

Width: 15cm

An elegant Victorian opaline glass vase of classical baluster form, finished in a soft turquoise-blue ground with delicate pink and gilt highlights.

The vase is beautifully decorated with a finely executed portrait medallion depicting a young lady in period dress, framed by gilt detailing and ornamental borders.

The graceful proportions, pastel colour palette and hand-painted decoration are characteristic of late Victorian decorative glass, created during a period when portrait vases were highly fashionable display pieces in refined drawing rooms and parlours.

The combination of opaline glass and romantic portraiture creates a striking decorative statement while retaining a distinctly feminine aesthetic.

A wonderful example of Victorian decorative art, equally suited to collectors of opaline glass, portrait ceramics and nineteenth-century interior furnishings.