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 white enamelled areas and gold spaces, highlighting the two female busts (practically portraits on an indefinite background) that both pieces present on their fronts. The two raised handles finished in a circle present a fine decoration of simplified plant elements; the glass shows decoration of the same type, but with a different influence (more classicist); The busts have been enhanced by two gold frames and dark lines with clear classicist memories; The white areas (with plant shapes) have golden lines. Both pieces show notable similarities both in the quality of the color of the glass and the decoration as well as in their lines, with outstanding 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 born in 1857, founded by Ludwig Moser), and is highly appreciated in the world. of art for his 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 colorless glass that was clearer and more stable than Italian glass), this activity became popular in the 19th century. XVII (although the term “Bohemian” or similar was used a hundred years before to differentiate the quality glass of this origin), and stood out above all in the 19th and 20th centuries thanks to important manufacturers for the quality of their materials and techniques and care in their designs. By the middle of the 19th century they already had a system of teaching glass manufacturing, and in the second half they exported very striking pieces in large quantities (usually pairs of glasses or vases of a single color in opaque or two-color glass, 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 significant quantities.

· Size: 15x13x41 cms.