Mini Glass Pedestal Dish

It came to us from a glass dealer in Lyon, a man who learned the trade at his father's side and, like his father, spent a lifetime holding each piece up to the light before letting it go. Small and footed, it is pressed glass, a scalloped bowl cut with facets, raised on a short pedestal and a petalled foot. Pressed in a mold to throw light like cut crystal, glass like this was the pretty everyday of a French table. Sylvie fills it with cherries or berries at breakfast, or keeps it on a dresser for rings and small things.

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