Lot 287
287
A GLASS DECANTER AND TWO GOBLETS FROM THE BANQUET SERVICE
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A GLASS DECANTER AND TWO GOBLETS FROM THE BANQUET SERVICE

BY THE IMPERIAL GLASS WORKS, ST PETERSBURG, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

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A GLASS DECANTER AND TWO GOBLETS FROM THE BANQUET SERVICE
BY THE IMPERIAL GLASS WORKS, ST PETERSBURG, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
The decanter of mallet form, with knopped neck, with a detachable stopper, the lobed body centring the crowned initial 'A' on an ermine mantling; the two goblets similarly decorated, apparently unmarked
The decanter, 13 5/8 in. (34.5 cm.) high with the stopper
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Lot Essay

The Banquet services produced by the Imperial Glass Works were usually decorated with monograms of the members of the Imperial family on ermine mantling. The present decanter and goblets may have been commissioned by Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich (1850-1908).

For comparable examples from the Banquet service decorated with the crowned initial 'A' , see T. Malinina, Imperial Glass Factory 18th - early 20th centuries, St Petersburg, 2009, p. 283. A similar decanter was sold Christie's, New York, 21 April 2010, lot 6.

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