Coupe émaillée de Philippe-Joseph Brocard (1831- 1896)

Cut glass amber blown enameled decoration with foliage, signed Brocard underfoot. Paris around 1870-1880.
Philippe-Joseph Brocard is among the artists and researchers who have struggled in the second half of the nineteenth century, making the glass instead of choosing it was in antiquity and the Renaissance should be placed at the forefront Joseph Brocard. A bulletin of the Union Centrale des Arts Decoratifs in 1874 states that after being restorer of works of art collector and at times he had the idea after seeing the lights of the mosques and the Cluny Museum have acquired himself, to imitate their magnificent and sumptuous glazes. To this end he carefully studied all the techniques in the art of glassmaking, and particularly that of enamel. Researcher talent, he manages to rediscover the process of hard enamel color in full, in which the Arabs have especially excelled. It is indeed very difficult to fix permanently fuse the enamels on glass. The enamel must be hard and their manufacture presents many obstacles Brocard had to overcome.