Topic: Agatin Opaline Glass - Buquoysche Glashütte - Bohemia?

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I'm just adding  this link for interest and reference for readers who do not have access to books with this glass in - and also because there are ,many pics that can be blown up on this link to see the detail (click on the link see other pics, and then click on the pics that come up as they enlarge very well)
Two of these, the plain blue and the purple are described by Bonhams as 'Agatin-Opalglas'

http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20902/lot/1294/

And just for interest, this link shows some early French opaline glass
http://www.rolanddufrenne.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Opalines_CX2.jpg
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I've added some links in my post above but I've also found this becher for sale
It has I think,  the same gilded band as your perfume bottle - however the glass does look different to me but that could be because it is a much darker colour so it looks less translucent than yours perhaps.

http://www.rubylane.com/item/518922-213dm-3/Antique-Buquoysche-Bohemian-Glass-Biedermeier

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[sawi]

hi, thanks for the links - the french opaline glass is beautiful!

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I came across this in the Hermitage Museum glass collection listed as Russian.
It has a many similarities with your bottle
The only caveat I would say is that in my books, as I mentioned, there are Bucquoy pieces with the same gilded panel decoration as your bottle. 
However this one is very similar isn't it? and I thought you might like to see it:)  Dated c.1840's/

I hope my link works -
http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/tmplobs/SJVDG_23ZSD7YS_23GX83.jpg
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[sawi]

hi flying free - thanks for your time!
nice piece, the glass looks similar to mine - only the gilded decoration is missing.

i think the right piece from this link you've posted before has the identical gilded decoration:
http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20902/lot/1294/

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I agree re the gilding
However interestingly Bonhams do not definitely identify it except to say 'Bohemian' and it was only sold 4 months ago.
I can see that the Russian piece I linked to is different to yours however the rim is similar and also that it is ribbed.  There are a few lilac opaline pieces in the Hermitage collection and some are also ribbed like your piece.  One is a lidded trinket box, one is another perfume bottle and the other is a small vase as I recall. All have some ribs in like yours if I recall correctly.
I am going to have another quick look as I recall also seeing a becher, cut, opaline,  in a pale blue and white like the middle piece on the Bonhams site, I think also enamelled and also Russian glass. edited to add - no, I checked again and it's not the same.
And also to add, that maybe Bonhams didn't identify it firmly because previous pieces have only been identified as 'probably Buquoy'... and as Mike says, it is known that Harrach did make similar?
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I have just looked through my new book  on Harrach 'From Neuwelt to the Whole World.  Just so you know, there is nothing in there in either this colour or the shape (unless I've missed a shape somewhere - it's a large tome - but I don't think I did).
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[sawi]

thx for searching through your books! 

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I hope this link works as the main link was odd - this should go straight to a picture of a white opalescent version of your flakon:

https://images3.lottissimo.com/?430,61,14754559,150.180

It shows the stopper as well so you can see what the complete version would have looked like.  Bad photograph but this one does not appear to have any gilding.

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