Large Vase from the Portieux Crystalworks, George Sand Model, Early 20th Century

An elegant and large antique pressed-glass vase from the Portieux crystalworks (1705-2012), George Sand model, with a turquoise blue bowl and amber base with ram's-head supports. The George Sand model signed Portieux was pressed around 1900. Founded in 1705, the crystalworks worked over the centuries for the most prestigious tables, for Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, the writer George Sand, and the Ritz.