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PROBABLY ST. PETERSBURG GLASS WORKS OR MALTSOV GLASS WORKS, PERIOD OF ELIZABETH I
Details
An Engraved Colorless Glass Decanter and Four Tumblers
Probably St. Petersburg Glass Works or Maltsov Glass Works, period of Elizabeth I
The square body of the decanter engraved with the Imperial double-headed eagle, the reverse with the Imperial monogram of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna and the date 1745, the sides engraved with flowering plants and the shoulders with floral sprigs, with original stopper, apparently unmarked; each tapering cylindrical tumbler engraved the Imperial double-headed eagle, the reverse with the Imperial monogram of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna and the dates, 1745, 1747, or 1757, apparently unmarked
7½ in. (19.2 cm.); 3¾ in. (9.2 cm.) (5)
Probably St. Petersburg Glass Works or Maltsov Glass Works, period of Elizabeth I
The square body of the decanter engraved with the Imperial double-headed eagle, the reverse with the Imperial monogram of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna and the date 1745, the sides engraved with flowering plants and the shoulders with floral sprigs, with original stopper, apparently unmarked; each tapering cylindrical tumbler engraved the Imperial double-headed eagle, the reverse with the Imperial monogram of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna and the dates, 1745, 1747, or 1757, apparently unmarked
7½ in. (19.2 cm.); 3¾ in. (9.2 cm.) (5)
Provenance
Collection of Bertel Hintze
Private Collection, Helsinki
Private Collection, Helsinki
Exhibited
Taidehalli Konsthallen, Helsinki, Old foreign art, Paintings, Prints, Glass and Russian Porcelain, January 1936. See exhibition catalogue, p. 33, no. 286 (decanter), nos. 287-289 (tumblers)
Further details
An identical beaker, dated 1747 and attributed to Maltsov, is in the Hillwood Museum, Washington, D.C. (Katrina V.H. Taylor, Russian Art at Hillwood, 1988, p. 84 fig. 124).