A French Monumental Gilt-Bronze-Mounted Opaline-Glass Vase and Cover, Probably Baccarat, Circa 1880

A French Monumental Gilt-Bronze-Mounted Opaline-Glass Vase and Cover, Probably Baccarat, Circa 1880

of baluster form with a stepped shoulder, painted by Paul Langlois, signed, partially obscured by mount in tones of blue and brown with a continuous scene, the front three figures at a riverside, with a cluster of rustic houses across the shore, with a ruinous hilltop castle in the background, the verso showing a distant town with a church spire across the water, the sides with mounds of large trees, the domed cover with tooled-gilt acanthus leaves, with similar gilding on the domed foot, wilt gilt-bronze mounts at the foot, and shoulder, affixed with scroll-strap handles

Height 49 in.

124.5 cm