A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED RUSSIAN (IMPERIAL GLASS FACTORY) CUT-GLASS VASES (VASES ROULEAUX)

CIRCA 1820

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED RUSSIAN (IMPERIAL GLASS FACTORY) CUT-GLASS VASES (VASES ROULEAUX)
Circa 1820
Each of baluster form, the neck cut with stepped concentric bands, the shoulder with hobnails, the body with strawberry pattern, the upright gilt-bronze handles issuing from bacchic masks and terminating at the rim in a roundel inset on each side with a smiling mask
18 3/4in. (47.6cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

The present model, made of 'Russian Stone', is likely based on a design by I.A. Ivanov, director of the imperial glass works in St Petersburg from 1815-1848. Another example is in the collection of the Hermitage. Cf. St. Petersburg um 1800: Ein goldenes Zeitalter des russischen Zarenreichs; Meisterwerke und autentische Zeugnisse der Zeit uas der Staatlichen Ermitage, Leningrad, Exhibition Catalogue, 1990, cat. no. 344, color plate p. 398.

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