Topic: Opaline Enamelled Glass Vase With Monmartre Writing

[Roobarb]

Hello, I wondered if anyone knew anything about this piece? It has writing on it which finishes with "from Monmartre" but unsure of the rest. Assume therefore it's French but any other info would be great. The sticker which I assume is from an antique store it was once in says it's c1900-1910

[NevB]

There is some confusion between opalescent glass which is translucent like yours and opaline glass which is opaque. I may be wrong but from the gilding and the smoothed pontil I think it is Bohemian, possibly Harrach? What the abbreviated writing means I can't work out, possibly it's some sort of personalisation for identification purposes. The date looks about right.

[NevB]

The writing could be short for " Souvenir du Sacre Coeur de Montmartre" a souvenir of the Sacred Heart Basilica.

[Roobarb]

Hi NevB, I'm so confused about opaline glass  I've Googled it I don't know how many times but still get a bit confused - especially because the label on this said opaline. I did think this was opalescent from what I'd read - because it's translucent but then the label threw me all over again  Thank you for confirming! Thanks for your replies, I'll look into Harrach and the souvenir possibility!

[NevB]

Yes if you Google opaline glass you mostly get images of opalescent glass. Here are a couple of photos, the vase is opalescent, the dish opaline.

[Lustrousstone]

Looks Bohemian to me too. Lots of souvenir ware came from there

[chopin-liszt]

The difference between opalescent and opaline is that if you hold it up to the light, you will see a "fire" inside opalescent glass; opaline is plain and the same colour all the way through.

[flying free]

I think this is classed opalescent not opaline glass.

If it was a souvenir from Sacre Couer would it be more likely to have a religious emblem/design on it probably of the church?
But thinking along those lines though, perhaps Sr. du S. C. de Montmartre is a short for Souer du Sacre Couer de Montmartre?
So it may have belonged to the sisters perhaps.  Is that a possible?

I also think it's Bohemian The enamelling design, the base yellow enamel and the way it's made cut at the top with no pontil mark.

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[NevB]

flying free, I think it's more likely to be souvenir than soeur, I don't know if nuns would own anything as frivolous as this. I can't find anything similar but perhaps it's a "bootleg" item not an official souvenir.

[Roobarb]

Thank you all for your replies and help with opaline / opalescent 

Will keep looking into Bohemian glass for this one...