{"product_id":"antique-french-beaded-glass-flower-composition-bisque-blooms-giltwood-frame","title":"Antique French Beaded Glass Flower Composition, Bisque Blooms, Giltwood Frame","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn antique French beaded-glass flower composition, fleurs en perles de verre, with a central bouquet of bisque porcelain blooms on caramel velvet in a carved giltwood oval frame, circa 1900. Perles de verre was a French parlor and convent craft from the mid-19th century into the early 20th: white glass seed beads worked over copper wire, made as memorial pieces, votive offerings, or sentimental gifts; here the technique reads in the wired seed-bead leaves and the beaded oval border. The hand-formed unglazed bisque flowers are a refinement that places the piece above plain all-bead examples. Unsigned and undocumented, so the French origin and the date rest on materials and technique, not a mark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGilt is worn through to the red bole at the carved high points and the caramel velvet ground shows light toning, consistent with age. A vertical split runs through the wood frame at the base — visible on both the face and the verso — while the beaded sprays and bisque blooms appear intact.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valley House Antiques","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67599102345369,"sku":"VHA-0039","price":175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/1270\/1593\/files\/beadedflower_cream.jpg?v=1791464929","url":"https:\/\/valleyhouseantiques.com\/products\/antique-french-beaded-glass-flower-composition-bisque-blooms-giltwood-frame","provider":"Valley House Antiques","version":"1.0","type":"link"}