Scarab Beetles Cameo Glass Vase
A 1930s cameo glass vase, ovoid with flaring neck. Decorated with three scarab beetles and cluster of hexagonal tiles in opaque gloss on background of frosted opalescent yellow, mottled soft brown showing blue/green, height 6.50 in.
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- Opalescent / Opaline - The descriptions of glass as "opalescent" or "opaline" are often used interchangeably by dealers and auction houses. At the upper end of the scale, opalescent / opaline glass can refer to the opal-like milky blue glass produced by Lalique and Etling. It also refers to the pressed glass mass produced in Britain from the 1840s with a milky white edge as sugar-basins, milk jugs and vases were made in great quantities for the mass market, and were sold at fairs along with Staffordshire figures and wooden dolls. A less common type of opalescent glass was made from two layers of glass blown into a mould.
- Oviform /ovoid - The outline loosely resembling the shape of an egg.
- Scarab Beetle - xx
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