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$55.00Rembrandt Portrait Etching Fine Belgium Crystal Signed & Dated 1968
Highly detailed Rembrandt portrait by Val St. Lambert, a producer of high quality art glass in Belgium. This plate is signed “Edition Limited, 1968, Val St. Lambert” in French.
This plate retains Both original labels. It is in excellent condition.
The Rembrandt portrait decor is deep acid etched from a very detailed carving. The surface of the plate is smooth, the deep etch decor shows through from the reverse. Wonderful 3-D effect. Beautiful artwork.
Heavyweight crystal, plate weighs 1.2 lbs. Measures 8″ wide, slightly flared rims .75″ deep. The Rembrandt plate does not have its original box.
Val St. Lambert made a series of these plates with different artists. Van Gogh and P.P. Rubens are shown in image 5 and are available separately. A gift set in its original packaging of Gainsborough and Reynolds is shown in image 6 and is also available separately.Click here to view all Old Masters portrait plates available.
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$55.00P.P. Rubens Portrait Plate in Quality Belgium Crystal with Deep Etching
Artistic P.P. Rubens Portrait Plate by Val St. Lambert. Signed & Dated 1968, Limited Series. From the quality glass maker’s ‘Old Masters’ series.
Val St. Lambert was a producer of high quality art glass in Belgium. Read more about the company at Wikipedia.
Peter Paul Rubens was a Baroque style portrait painter in the 1600’s.
The P.P. Rubens portrait decor is a very detailed deep acid etched carving. The surface of the plate is smooth, the deep etch decor shows through from the reverse. Wonderful 3-D effect. Beautiful artwork.
Heavyweight, high quality crystal plate weighs 1 lb. Measures 8″ wide, slightly flared rims .75″ deep. This plate retains its original label. It is in excellent condition.
Val St. Lambert made a series of these plates with different artists. Van Gogh and Rembrandt are shown in image 5 and are available separately. A gift set in its original packaging of Gainsborough and Reynolds is also available separately. Click here to view all Old Masters portrait plates available.
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$110.00Old Masters Gift Set in High Quality Vintage Belgium Crystal
The Old Masters gift set includes two famous artists crystal art plates by Val Saint Lambert, Belgium. Highly artistic deep sand-blast carvings on quality crystal of English artists Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough. Both men were competing in the lucrative portrait business in the Mid-18th Century
Great find in original box with literature. Box is a bit worn from storage. Plates are in pristine condition with both Val St. Lambert labels on each.
The carvings are detailed and interesting/amusing. Artist must have been very grumpy back in the 1700’s. Top-of-the line deeply etched decor with a fascinating 3-D effect.
The crystal is pure, extreme high clarity…not a spot on it. Thick walled, top-quality Belgium crystal.
Both are signed on the base “Edition Limited – 1972 Val St. Lambert”. Pamphlet gives a short bio of the artists and a list (with dates) of others artists in the series beginning in 1968.
More famous artist plates of Van Gogh, Rubens and Rembrandt (without original boxes) are available separately . Click here to view all Old Masters portrait plates available.
Plates measure 8″ round, rims are slightly flared up. Each plate weighs 1 lb.
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