Pair of enamelled glass vases by Mary Grégory *, decorated with two children picking fruit in a bucolic landscape, the boy sitting in the tree on a branch and the girl picking fruit in her basket, vintage nineteenth century.
These vases are in good condition and are very decorative.
A note: some slight defects and bubbles in the glass, micro-égrenure (barely visible) on the neck of a vase, slight wear time on white enamel decorations, see photos.
is an American artist specializing in enamelled glass. From 1880 to 1890, she worked with her sister at the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company. She has the peculiarity of having represented in her works only children Victorian (wearing sailor suits or crinolines) in the middle of nature scenery, quite like the illustrations of Kate Greenawayet, and more rarely babies. His enamelled subjects, of a milky white very typical and very recognizable, were made by application on glasses, pitchers, carafes, sugar bowls, vases, amethyst-colored salt vials, light green, dark green, amber, light blue, turquoise , blue cobalt or vermeil. His European productions were mainly made in the glass cities of Bohemia, mainly by the Hahn glassworks in Gablonz, and to a lesser extent by the Moser glassworks in Karlsbad and extended until the 1950s.