SOLD – Pair Arts & Crafts Gilded Blue Glass Vases c1890

Description

A remarkable pair of Victorian opaque white and cobalt blue overlaid glass bottle vases which date to c1890.

Beautifully hand painted in gold gilt. very much in the Japanese style with asymmetric gilded mon. flowers and foliage. Polished pontil sto the base. No chips cracks or restoration they measure approx. 6 ½ inches tall.

The Arts and Crafts Movement is the main line of reform to design in the 19^th century that defines the period of its greatest development. roughly between 1875-1920. The Aesthetic Movement and Art Nouveau. whose roots were in the reaction to the Industrial Revolution in England in the middle of the 19^th century. are the two major stylistic developments of this Movement’s philosophy. Out of the Aesthetic Movement came new ideas and shapes that looked towards the 20^th century including the study of Japanese principles of design. Many of the large commercial firms like Wedgwood. Copeland. Worcester and Minton were interested in the foreign influences merely for their fashionable decorative values and some of the results were superb workmanship and design.