Antique Glass Bronze Mounted Vases Signed Alphonse Giroux Paris
Wonderful dark blue glass vases.
Dated:mid 19century. Richly bronze gilded decoration of insects and foliage.
The activity of the Giroux house extended from 1799 to the end of the Second Empire. Created by François-Simon-Alphone Giroux, his son Alphonse-Gustave and his brother André took it over in 1838. Specializing in the manufacture of refined objects for gifts, Louis XVIII and Charles X frequented it. It was greatly influenced by a Japanese movement from 1860 to 1870, as this pair of vases shows. The house closed in 1885.
