A Very Fine & Rare French Rock Crystal Ball On a Fine Ormolu Stand c.1900 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage and she always said no

and she always said no

the whole standing on bracket feet with shaped apron canopy

of Taiwanese (Formosa) Papilio Horishanus tropical swallotail butterflies (Atrophaneura Horishanus

with many innocent children shielded amongst them and the holy cross on the mountain beyond

Woven in the Heriz district located 40 miles west of Tabriz in the north-west of Iran

A Very Fine & Rare French Rock Crystal Ball On a Fine Ormolu Stand c.1900 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage and she always said noOrigin: French Period: 3rd Republic Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1900 Height: 8. 25 (Overall) Stand Height: 5. 5 Base Width: 4 Diameter: 3. 5 (The Sphere) The very fine quality sphere of rock crystal, of extraordinary purity, cradled on a wonderful ornate gilt brass ormuolu stand with avian (probably cockerel) monopodia supports, ribbon cresting and hung with lustres, the whole on a rose quartz triform base, and surviving from the zeniths of