DEUX PIÈCES DE VERRERIE ORLÉANAISE

TWO PIECES OF GLASSWARE FROM ORLEANS
- Colorless glass spice rack with a hollow shaft from which three shells emerge. It is surmounted by a hollow globe containing a colored wax baby Jesus, holding his cross, in a plant surrounding of pearls. Orléans, early 18th century.
Height : 25 cm - Diameter : 12 cm (Small accidents, restoration)
See Jacqueline Bellanger, Verre d'usage et de prestige, France 1500-1800, Édition de l'Amateur, 1988 p. 217.
- Rare oil lamp with three lights in colorless glass and red and blue tinted glass. The tank in hollow pear-shaped body from which a wick spout leaves. The main tank is flanked by two small tubular tanks which can receive wicks. They are covered with removable caps in the shape of flowers. The lamp is covered with applied flowers worked with pliers. Circular foot. Summed up with a glass suspension ring decorated with applied flowers with red dots. Orleans, 18th century.
Height : 26 cm - Width : 15 cm Depth : 14 cm (Accidents and restorations)
This lamp is perhaps a rare testimony of the church glass night lights evoked from the middle of the 18th century.
See Jacqueline Bellanger, Verre d'usage et de prestige, France 1500-1800, Édition de l'Amateur, 1988 p. 394.