Offered by AG Antiquités
Baccarat vase "Carpes Affrontees" in tool-worked blown-molded translucent crystal. Model created by Emile Gallé and executed by the Baccarat crystal works for the Exposition Universelle de Paris in 1878 in the Japanese taste very much in vogue at the time. Bibliography - Michaela Lerch & Dominique Morel - Baccarat : la légende du cristal - Catalogue of the exhibition organized at the Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, in 2015.