A French enamelled 'Persian-style' amber-tinted glass pilgrim flask, Philippe-Joseph Brocard, Paris, dated 1867

signed, the flattened tear-drop form with waisted neck, four applied pierced lug handles, over a conical foot, painted on the sides with medallions within geometric stylised foliage, below a band of running hares on a blue ground, heightened in gilding

Brocard's enamelling skills were first displayed at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867. From that time forward he was considered an innovator and a very skilful practitioner of his art. The date of 1867 on the present lot might suggest that it was exhibited in Paris at this time and thus maybe one of the earliest dated examples of Brocard's work.