A Rare Pair of French Opaline Finger Bowls with the Imperial Cipher of Napoleon III, c.1855–1870 art Cecchi’ in the Northern Italian

Cecchi’ in the Northern Italian province of Pistoia

Created for domestic use

whose restorations at Windsor Castle were later influenced by the couple's work at Alnwick

it has life

Composite order is a mixed ‘order’ combining the Iconic Order capital with the acanthus leaves of the Corinthian order

A Rare Pair of French Opaline Finger Bowls with the Imperial Cipher of Napoleon III, c.1855–1870 art Cecchi’ in the Northern ItalianA beautifully refined pair of French bols en opaline opaline glass finger bowls each decorated with the gilded crowned N of Napoleon III. These elegant Second Empire pieces were almost certainly produced for the Imperial household and formed part of a formal table service or guest apartment setting. The milky translucency, wide flared rims and hollow feet are characteristic of high quality mid 19th century opaline, and the bowls exactly correspond to