Agate bowls in the collections of museums around the world
Bowl made of Urazov jasper (“meat agate”) with handles in the form of intertwined snakes made of gilded bronze, height 28.5 cm, Imperial Yekaterinburg Lapidary Factory, Russia, 1804, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Precious Agate bowls in the collections of museums around the world
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Works by Jules Barbet
Cameo vase with lizard in relief, decorated with enamel by Jules Barbet, height 17 cm, Thomas Webb & Sons, circa 1880-1890.
Jules Barbet, one of the leading gilders and glass enamellers of the late 19th century, was born in Paris in 1847, where he later trained as a decorative
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