Three Art Nouveau Glass Vases, Possibly Loetz, Late 19th Century

Description: Three Art Nouveau Glass Vases
Possibly Loetz, Late 19th Century
Consisting of a large gold oil-spot iridescent blue glass baluster vase with flared lip and ground pontil formed base; a green iridescent gold glass bud vase insert with tapering body, ruffled rim, and ground pontil flat base set in a whiplash openwork sterling silver stand with bulbous base and flared foot with hallmarking by Meriden; and an amber iridescent blue oil-spot glass vase with a compressed bulbous body tapering to silver mounted opening set on a step-rounded silver mounted base, overall with scrolling lily decorated silver overlay and underside marked 287 in blue. Minor wear to underside and accumulated debris and residue around interior opening to large gold vase; green insert with nick to ground pontil and tarnish throughout stand; minor fleabite indentations to silver overlay of smaller vase.
Height of largest: 9 in (22.9 cm)
Weight of weighable silver: 7.3 ozProperty from the Estate of Byron T. Franzén

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