74 - BURGUN SCHVERER (Lorraine Art Glassworks)

BURGUN SCHVERER (Lorraine Art Glassworks) A colorless crystal vase with a honey-amber lining accented with green interlayering powders, featuring a rounded body, a small recessed foot, and a straight, flared neck. Rich decoration, finely engraved and painted with polychrome hard enamels and gold, featuring a medallion depicting a chariot race on the body, and, on the rest of the piece, a frieze of palmettes, stylized flowers, and geometric motifs. Gold signature within a thistle and the Cross of Lorraine reading “Verrerie d’Art de Lorraine B.S.C. déposé,” beneath the base. H: 15 cm (bubbles in the interlayer powders, some of which have burst on the surface) A transparent and amber-honey-tinted double-layer crystal vase by Burgun & Schverer, with green interlayer powders and a finely etched, polychromatic, and gold-enameled design featuring a chariot race on the belly, surrounded by friezes of stylized palmettes, flowers, and geometric patterns. Gold signature “Verrerie d’Art de Lorraine B.S.C. déposé,” beneath the base, within a Lorraine thistle and featuring a Lorraine cross. H: 5.90 inches (bubbles in the interlayer, some bursting on the surface) Bibliography: - François Le Tacon, Paul Franckhauser, and Yvon Fleck: “Meisenthal, Cradle of Art Nouveau Glass,” exhibition catalog from March 26 to November 1, 1999, at the Maison du Verre et du Cristal in Meisenthal, 1999; this piece was exhibited and reproduced as No. 54.