Large antique Art Nouveau Bohemian Moser fine hand gilded enamelled glass vase

  

Large antique Art Nouveau Bohemian Moser glass centrepiece flower vase. Unusual shape: it is low/squat, with a flattened pillow-shape and a wide mouth/rim. Measures just over 9 inces wide and 5 inches deep and 3.25 inches high. The style is Art Nouveau with organic, flowing floral motifs and naturalist decor. It is decorated with masses of very fine hand applied raised gilt decoration, gilded panels and pink and white enamel floral work and dots in classic Moser style.

Based on my online research it is likely dating from the. Late 19th to early 20th century.

It has a polished flat green glass base. The very fine hand gilded and high relief enamelled decoration is really beautiful and has been applied with great skill. Around and beneath the polished flat rim is completely gilded and there is a band decorated with 12 lovely pink and white high relief enamelled flowers and leaves with white enamel jewel type dots inbetween each. Below that is a line of tiny white enamel dots.

There are beautiful Art Nouveau style gilt relief patterns of dog roses, leaves and rose hips scolling all over the bottom section beneath four sections of solid triangular gilded panels each bearing overlaid gilt relief organic patterns too. In excellent antique condition: this was well cared for by family and kept for display only. The gilding shows virtually no sign of rubbing or fading as it was hardly ever handled-the enamelled decoration remains excellent too with just the surface tip of a petal on one flower showing a minute chip otherwise I can see no faults. There is a tiny area of extra gilding near the bottom beneath one curling stem which to me looks like the left side of an'M' with a blob next to it but I cannot be certain so it might be just a bit of gilding gone astray-although the rest has been so delicately executed it seems unlikely that would have happened so I do wonder if it was a mark of some kind as that sort of location for a makers mark would be typical for Moser pieces according to my research.