PAIR OF BOHEMIAN CRANBERRY RUBY RED GLASS ENAMELED AND GOLD URNS. 19TH CENTURY.

Pair of vases. Glass. Bohemia, Czech Republic, 19th century. Pair of red glass vases decorated with areas of white enamel and spaces in gold, highlighting the two female busts (practically portraits on an undefined background) that both pieces present on their fronts. The two raised handles finished in a circle have a fine decoration of simplified plant elements; the glass shows decoration of the same type, but of a different influence (more classicist); the busts have been enhanced by two frames in gold and dark lines clearly reminiscent of classicism; the white areas (with plant shapes) have gold lines. Both pieces show remarkable similarities in the quality of the colour of the glass and the decoration as well as in the lines of the pieces, with notable red Bohemian glass urns, especially with works linked to Ludwig Moser & Söhne. Moser is a company that manufactures luxury glass objects located in Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic; formerly Karlsbad in Bohemia) that continues its work today (it was founded in 1857 by Ludwig Moser), and is highly appreciated in the art world for its works from the late 19th and 20th centuries. Although Bohemia was a region known for its glass production as early as the 13th century (especially when they discovered that adding potassium created a clearer and more stable colourless glass than Italian glass), this activity became popular in the 17th century (although the term “Bohemian” or similar had been used for a hundred years before to distinguish quality glass from this origin), and stood out especially in the 19th and 20th centuries thanks to important manufacturers for the quality of their materials and techniques and the care taken in their designs. By the mid-19th century they already had a system for teaching glassmaking, and in the second half they exported very striking pieces in large quantities (usually pairs of glasses or vases in a single colour in opaque glass or in two colours, decorated with enamelled floral elements, painted details; sometimes lithographic techniques were used to copy famous paintings and capture them in works; etc.) created in large factories and in large quantities.

· Size: 15x13x41 cms.