Antique Hand-Colored Paris Engraving: "Vue de la Grotte du Jardin du Luxembourg” blown glass Its timeworn surface and layered

Its timeworn surface and layered paint speak to a life well lived

Marked “ENGLAND” on the underside

Stamped on the underside with the crowned lion mark of Petrus Regout

A rare and collectible find

Antique Hand-Colored Paris Engraving: "Vue de la Grotte du Jardin du Luxembourg” blown glass Its timeworn surface and layeredThis late 18th century hand colored engraving captures a rare historical view of the Medici Fountain in Paris, then known as the "Grotte du Jardin du Luxembourg."Produced between 1787 and 1789 as part of the celebrated series Vues pittoresques des principaux difices de Paris, the artwork is attributed to the prominent French engraver Antoine Louis Franois Sergent Marceau. The circular "tondo" composition and delicate hand tinting depict the fountain