Featured Opaline Girandole/Luster

Hello everybody,

I have bought an opaline glass luster or girandole.
It's beautifully enameled, a quite large.

Height: 27,5 cm / 10.8 inch.
Diameter (middle): 10 cm / 3.9 inch.

* Handblown, see pontilmark.
* All hand-painted.

Condition:
* Good.

I also like to know, how this type of top is been called.
Myself, I call it a flower-top, but I'd like to know it's official term.


I believe it's either bohemian or french.
Any ideas about age, origin, and value are welcome!


Thank you very much!
R. Antonis

 

I call the top edge Ruffled

 

This falls under the same description as your vase

Called Bristol Style, but has nothing to do with England.

Enamel painted glass.

1890s - Pre WWI Bohemia/Czech.

I think your vase is painted a little better than the lustre.

Oh and adding:
It is spelled lustre not luster

 

Thank you very much!

Might be stupid, but, I read earlier that bristol glass had nothing to do with Bristol.
But I still thought it meant it was English glass.
(Don't ask me why )

The spelling I wasn't sure about. Now I am.
Thank you !

 

I'm going off of memory, so might not be 100%

Bristol is a place in England. Not sure exactly when, late 1700s? early 1800s?, they were a major glass area. Known for their Blue Glass. Not sure how the later Bohemian glass came to be called Bristol. Whenever you see glass such as yours called Bristol Glass, it is actually a misnomer.

 

Ruffled indeed, with pendant lustres.

Some pillock decided a few years back to uses Bristol as a Thing. Bit like Mary Gregory.