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AN INTACT RED AND GILT BOHEMIAN URANIUM CUT-GLASS SPIRIT DECANTER FOR THE IRANIAN EXPORT MARKET Bohemia, Czech Republic, Eastern Europe, late 19th century Of typical pyriform shape, resting on a circular flat base, with a tapering ringed neck rising to a wide everted mouth, the lid faceted and arrow-shaped, the polychrome-enamelled and gilt decoration typical of the Iranian export market production and consisting of swirling bands of gilt beading, polychrome rosette and floral bouquets interspersed amidst diamond-cut grid patterns and stylised vegetal festoons, around the shoulders golden oval frames in-filled with dense floral bouquets, the base cut with an octagonal star design around the edges and marked in red '110' in the centre, the transparent uranium glass fluorescing brightly under UV light, 47.8cm high.
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AN INTACT RED AND GILT BOHEMIAN URANIUM CUT-GLASS SPIRIT DECANTER FOR THE IRANIAN EXPORT MARKET Bohemia, Czech Republic, Eastern Europe, late 19th century Of typical pyriform shape, resting on a circular flat base, with a tapering ringed neck rising to a wide everted mouth, the lid faceted and arrow-shaped, the polychrome-enamelled and gilt decoration typical of the Iranian export market production and consisting of swirling bands of gilt beading, polychrome rosette and floral bouquets interspersed amidst diamond-cut grid patterns and stylised vegetal festoons, around the shoulders golden oval frames in-filled with dense floral bouquets, the base cut with an octagonal star design around the edges and marked in red '110' in the centre, the transparent uranium glass fluorescing brightly under UV light, 47.8cm high.
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