Wine and Famous Artists
Lucian Freud has just deigned a new wine label for
Chateau Mouton Rothschild 2006.
While the wine is obviously superb, the label by Freud
adds an exotic upmarket touch.
It is of course a Family Tradition in the Rothschild Family.
Baron Philippe de Rothschild commissioned Jean Carlu to design a label in 1924 for the first vintage
bottled entirely at the Chateau.
He also commissioned a label with V for Victory at the end of World War II
Other labels by Marc Chagall,Francis Bacon ,Andy Warhol and Wassily Kandinsky also grace his wine Labels.
It is delightful to see fine art in conjection with the finest of wines.
Also it is rather interesting that many other vineyards have now adopted the similar system of ungrading their wine labels with collectable Art.(not that any Chateau Rothschild wine even remotely needed upgrading of course !)

Among the other famous Artists who have designed WIne Labels are :
Picasso,
Dali,
Haring,
Balthus,
Georges Braque,
George Baselitz,

I have even seen wine Labels featuring paintings by the Great Masters of the Past including Leonardo da Vinci
But which glass to use to drink them from ?
I tend to favour Baccarat myself ...

There is a rather jolly website offering to produce your very own wine labels (with wine of course !)
and I quite fancy designing my own labels for some of my friends.
Thats at : http://www.stoneycreekwinepress.com/

Here is another article about Artists and Wine Labels:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601093&sid=aIw2ZclFW50k&refer=home
I forgot to mention that many famous artists (including myself of course) (well famous for 12 miles in any direction !)- prefer to be paid in wine - a pretty good deal for those chosen to design for Chateau Rothschild I think !

Edward the VIIth was given this cigarette case with a snake biting its tail (The Ouobouros ) by his mistress Mrs Keppel.

Mrs Keppel was also the great,great grandmother of Camilla Parker-Bowles - now the Duchess of Cornwall

Interesting story about how the case was given but I could not possibly comment...
Commentary by Cleveland Museum of Art's Stephen Harrison

This Video shows the Neptune Jar by Daum (including the signature)
Recognising real Daum Signatures is really important when considering buying glass - especially expensive glass.
On this particular Jar the two pieces of damage to the handle would seriously lessen the value of the piece.

Voici quelques bouts sur le verre de achat à un marché ou à un magasin antique.
1 - Lisez tous au sujet de l'article exact que vous pensez à l'achat. Soigneusement note
2 en bas des mesures - pourquoi ? Vous avez besoin des mesures parce qu'assez une pratique commune est d'avoir des morceaux ou raye rectifié au loin professionnellement.
Ceci se produit habituellement sur le verre cher seulement car il est coûteux pour faire faire ceci.
S'il y a des morceaux ou les éraflures ou même un morceau frappé outre du bord du dessus ou le fond du verre quand il est rectifié en bas de ceci seront exactes autour du morceau et il sera plus court (si l'entaille est au dessus du verre) ou plus étroit (s'il est sur la base).
Ceci signifie que les dimensions auront changé de l'original. Il peut également y avoir un certain givrage autour de la jante (si elle n'est pas faite carefuly) que ceci réduit rigoureusement la valeur du morceau.
Vérifiez le modèle - une manière commune d'enlever une éraflure est de graver un secteur givré au-dessus de elle. Ce qui DEVRAIT le regard de morceau comme - consultez l'Internet pour des photos de ce que vous recherchez - particulièrement sur un grand marché d'antiquités comme ceux dans la route de Lille, de Paris ou de Londres Portobello
où vous verrez beaucoup de copies des morceaux en verre rares.

3 inspectent soigneusement pour déceler les éraflures ou d'autres marques. Regard

4 soigneusement à la signature. Les signatures ne sont pas une chose facile à vérifier. Quelques vitriers ont signé tout leur travail.
D'autres ont eu la personne faire réellement le signe de morceau pour eux. Chaque vitrier a eu différentes manières de signer des morceaux.
Pantin par exemple n'a signé ou n'a pas marqué rien tandis que Lalique avait beaucoup de signatures et d'inscriptions.
Vous devriez avoir connaissance vers le haut de de votre vitrier préféré avant que vous achetiez.
5 articles truqués incluent souvent les signatures fausses aussi. Les articles truqués tchèques et roumains souvent prennent la sortie facile et ont sablé des signatures.

Les copies de la Roumanie ont souvent le bout de mot gravé bord à bord la signature copiée. Ceci est souvent enlevé avec un foret dentaire ou de métier par les magasins sans scrupules mais les feuilles par secteur blanc qui si vous étudiez il n'est pas soigneusement tout à fait exact.

Ceci se produit souvent avec les lampes chères de reproduction de Daum et d'autres principaux fabricants

Apology:
We apologise for our poor French translation.

watch?v=ONfsZz1_iSwDaum Glass Neptune Video

 

 

Studying videos like this one improve your knowledge about French Glasss - remember Knowledge is POWER !

Although this is not actually French Glass the Frost Fair Glass is currently on exhibition at the V& A Museum in London
This glass is actually a souvenir from 1683 which was sold from one of the booths that were set up on the River Thames itself
when it froze solid during the exceptionally cold winter of 1683.
There was actually a medieval Fun Fair on the ice with all kinds of fun and entertainments
(including some that I disapprove of like bear-baiting)
Altogether it must have looked like a scene from Breughel
The booths sold drinks ,food and toys and it was a famous attraction until the river melted.
This is a fascinating piece of Glass History and I urge you to visit the V&A to see it.
Here is one of Breughels pictures of winter:

Part of the new range of Lalique figurines are Dragons.

These beautiful Oriental inspired dragons would make a great addition to any Lalique or French Glass collection

Although Dragons were originally from the Far East, these Oriental beauties seem quite happy here.

I have no connection with the following company but thought it might  help you with any chipped or broken pieces.

Recently in France at an antiques market I saw several lovely Lalique figurines that I passed by as I thought they were too badly chipped... so I left them there (and no I won't tell you where it was   I'm going back soon ..<grin !>

I was browsing the web today and came across this company:
http://www.brueningglass.com

One of the services they offer is to repair chipped lalique and other glass.
They also do repairs to:
Barometers
Broken Decanters
Chandeliers
Chipped Glass
Chipped Stemware
Lalique and other fine Glass
Glass Glueing
Panel Lamp Repairs.

They have some very impressive before and after repair photos on their website and its worth bookmarking this page to fix anything you may get broken (by next doors cat of course !)

They sound interesting - if you have had any glass repairs done by this company then a review here would be nice... if you have a moment.