Antique Bohemian 9" cranberry pink overlay crystal vase white opaline layer cut decorated enamel flowers

Beautiful cranberry pink Bohemian overlay crystal vase with
pink and transparent inner layer, white opaline outer layer cut and decorated with enamel flowers, and fine gold. Overlay technique is a very particular technique, and needs a special skills. Two lays of cristal, of different colours, are assembled in a furnace, and once they are cold, the external lay is incised (grinded) so that the internal lay appears as an element of decoration.

Measurements (Approx)
Glasses size: 23 cm tall, diameter 12 cm
Bohemia late 19th/early 20th century
Excellent condition

Bohemia, Czech - Čechy, German - Böhmen is a historical country of central Europe that was a kingdom in the Holy Roman Empire and subsequently a province in the Habsburgs’ Austrian Empire. Bohemia was bounded on the south by Austria, on the west by Bavaria, on the north by Saxony and Lusatia, on the northeast by Silesia, and on the east by Moravia.