bougeoir à cacheté en verre argenté

Coucou la meute

Brolito ou bon, 18 grammes, 82 mm de haut, 60 mm de diamètre.

Verdict

Diane Lytwyn here, author of the "Pictorial Guide To Silvered Mercury Glass." Collector books, 2006. Your piece is a modern reproduction made to look old. Real antique mercury glass was blown double walled and filled with a solution containing silver nitrate, then sealed. Silvered glass was made first in Bohemia, now the Czech Republic, later in England and the United States. There is no documentation to support silvered glass was ever made in Italy, even the animal figures sometimes attributed to Murano were made in Germany. Sincerely, Diane Lytwyn