Pair of Antique Bohemian Cranberry Glass Lusters for the Islamic Market

Early 20th century, cranberry stained and cut glass with gilt, four-part flared urn form shade on pedestal, each shade printed with an oval pendant image of a Shah to the obverse and reverse, above a drip tray adorned with faceted cut glass prisms beneath octagonal medallions, supported on a hollow baluster stem with domed foot, retaining Christie's lot tags with the corresponding 2013 auction catalog.

27 1/2 x 7 x 7 in.

Private Collection, California and North Carolina

Purchased Christie's Interiors South Kensington, August 13th 2013, Lot 117,

Some chips to glass, prisms; areas of gilt loss; some cement loss at the metal mounts beneath the urn.