A fine and impressive pair of J. & L. Lobmeyr enamelled 'Persian style' glass bottle vases Vienna, circa 1878

from the 'Arabian Series', designed by Machytka and Schmoranz, each squat globular form with tapering neck and collar, over a high conical foot, painted with four medallions enclosing a rosette and scroll, reserved on gilt scroll

The present lot is based on an extremely rare 13th century Egyptian or Syrian Mamluk form, an example of which was mentioned by G.Schmoranz, Old Oriental gilt and enamelled glass vessels, p.33. See the example from the Collection of the Late Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild, sold Christie's London, 14th December 200, lot 48 (£828,750) and that in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Gustav Scmoranz's drawings in the 1870s provided the designs for several of the Islamic styles introduced by Lobmeyr. See W.Neuwirth, Orientalisierende Gläser, p.51, pl.18.