Standing cup, 1850–51, French, Rock crystal, silver gilt, enamel, pearls, Height: 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm), Metalwork-Silver In Combination, Jean-Valentin Morel (French, 1794–1860), Romantic historicism was one of many nineteenth-century revival styles, and Morel was unsurpassed in his skill in fashioning hard stones, enameling, and an eclectic assortment of decorative motifs into highly refined evocations of seventeenth-century goldsmiths' work
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Standing cup, 1850–51, French, Rock crystal, silver gilt, enamel, pearls, Height, 9 1/4, 23.5 cm, Metalwork-Silver, Combination, Jean-Valentin Morel, 1794–1860, Romantic historicism, nineteenth-century revival, styles, Morel, unsurpassed, skill, fashioning hard, stones, enameling, eclectic assortment, decorative motifs, highly refined, evocations, seventeenth-century goldsmiths, work
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