Miniature af Zoé Talon du Cayla Kunstglas

Miniature af Zoé Talon du Cayla KunstglasHeight 6. 5 cm. Width 5. 5 cm. Zo Talon du Cayla was the mistress of Louis XVIII of France. She lived from 1785 1852 and was titled Countess of Cayla. The portrait depicts her as Demeter, the Greek goddess of grain and protector of agriculture. The reverse bears her name. The picture is painted on bone, has an old drying crack and is set in a patinated brass frame. The glass is the original curved one, which has some marks in the glass itself.

The color is hard to capture in a picture

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first appeared in 1955

Beautiful vase in pressed glass from the 1920s

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when it was discontinued along with the Palet and Carneby series

and later the glass was coated with gold

Zoé Talon du Cayla was the mistress of Louis XVIII of France

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which effectively ended the French Revolution in 1803

Today it is impossible to distinguish the glass from one glassworks to another

They are in perfect condition