Alabaster glass with pink gold-ruby casing, crater-shaped sides with gold-heightened handles, fine and wide gold edges, engraved edges, white foliate border on pink ground, etched pink arch, meander and foliate friezes on white ground, front with Dionysus, standing, with thysrus staff in his left hand and in conversation with his wife Ariadne, reverse side with dancing maenad with fluttering shawl, right hand holding wine goblet, left hand holding thyrsus staff, sides with elaborate small and large palmettes and spirals, stand with sphere to base, height 25.5 cm, Cristalleries de Baccarat, France, 1867-1870 (Ru)

Cristalleries de Baccarat, Meurthe et Moselle, France was established in 1764 by the Bishop in Metz, Monsignore de Montmorency-Laval, under the protection of Louis XV., it still exists today.

Lit.: Jean-Louis Curtis, 1992, Baccarat, Thanes and Hudson, p. 256;
Lit.: Jane Shadel Spillman, Glass from the World's Fairs 1851-1904 Exhibition Catalogue, 1986, p.23, fig. 8; Baccarat had designed a series of vases on the subject of the Bacchus cult in 1867 for the world fair in Paris.

See: wine cooler in the Portland Museum of Art, Maine, USA.

Lit.: Stefania Zelasko, Gräflich Schaffgotsch'sche Josephinenhütte, Passau 2005, p. 231;