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French Louis XVI-style bottle made of hand-carved and ground red crystal, 1930s
SILVER Seller in Prato, Italy
Item description
Hand cut and ground red crystal bottle; for its execution an excellent lead crystal was used, which gives the crystal itself a high refractive index; with manual artisan techniques of cutting, grinding and polishing, the surface of the bottle creates extraordinary plays of light and reflections; the color of the crystal concerns only the outside and was obtained with the addition of metal oxides and pigments (in this case copper oxide and gold chloride were added to obtain a very intense ruby shade) during casting to make sure that the color was then uniform; the glass masters then modeled the final shape of the bottle and, once cooled, cut and sanded the entire body by hand in a decorative and meticulous way, using small circular stone wheels; finally, the bottle was polished with a cork bark wheel wet with a mash of water and pumice, and finally the polishing phase, obtained with a felt wheel wet with a mash of water, iron oxide and cerium oxide .
ID: 4672-1655737779-41346
Item details
20-30
Time period
Item sizes
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- intOndo ground floor shipping with predefined shipping fees within continental Italy and Europe; quotation requests for the rest of the world
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This policy is not applied to pickups.
Please to find out more, read our Buyer's Guide.
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- credit card
- Paypal
- direct bank transfers by Sofort
- traditional bank transfers.
We remind you that your purchases are submitted to items availability in the Seller's store: if the item is not available, you'll be notified and intOndo will immediately send you the money back.
