The enamel painted glasses of Alphonse Giboin
©madd Bordeaux - L. Gauthier
object n°24
The enamel painted glasses of Alphonse Giboin
Purchase by the City of Bordeaux, 1974 - Inv 74.3.3 / Gift of Edouard Bonie, 1894 - Inv 73.1.88 / Purchase by the City of Bordeaux, 1993 - Inv 93.3.4 / Gift of the Association of Friends of the Hôtel de Lalande, 1992 - Inv 92.2.6
The enamelled glasses of Alphonse Giboin (1828 - 1921) are among the curiosities of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs.
At the end of the 19th century, this cultivated man, a retired civil servant in Libourne, demonstrated his mastery of the recently rediscovered techniques of enamel on glass. He created glass objects inspired by the Arab-Persian Orient, Japan or historicism in vogue at the time...
object n°24 (pdf)
