Small Crystal Bowl with Wave Motif and Starburst Base Antique

Small Crystal Bowl with Wave Motif and Starburst Base AntiqueMachine Pressed Crystal Bowl 3. 5"h x 6"diam Late 20th C (1970s 90s) Uniform Vertical Ribs Waves Starburst Base Thick Crystal

Ebonized edging with MOP stringing - delicate dot border and hand-inlaid shell

Leather covered wood with gold tooling pattern (rolling pallet)

rue Ménilmontant

Used to present high end smoking accessories - cigarette holders

Transformed Boccaccio-style tales into French verse (celebrated verse tales)

These two plates together form a cohesive diptych-like image that would have originally depicted the biblical moment when Gabriel announces to Mary that she will conceive the Son of God

Evelyne Devisme - French regional artist 80s-00s

Neoclassical symmetry and architectural lines

Conkey Company (Chicago) was active mainly from late 19th to early 20th C

This is not later Victorian

mounted in ormolu (gilt bronze)

Reverse has HebrewLatin printed backing