A RUSSIAN ORMOLU AND CUT-GLASS TAZZA

FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY

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A RUSSIAN ORMOLU AND CUT-GLASS TAZZA
FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
The shallow bowl with trellis-cut flanked by fluted cornucopia surmounted by doves as handles, on a spreading foot and a stepped square base with conformingly cut glass with a foliate-banded plinth
11 in. (28 cm.) high

Literature

A. Gaydamak, Russian Empire, Moscow - Paris, 2000, p. 188.

Lot Essay

A similar tazza with the two birds flanking a ruby-red cut glass bowl on an ormolu vase is in the Winterpalace and was part of the personal collection of Tsar Nicholas I (d. 1855) (San Pietroburgo, exhibition catalogue, Milan, 1991, p. 296, cat. 157).

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