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PROBABLY ST. PETERSBURG GLASSWORKS, PERIOD OF ELIZABETH I
Details
A Gilt-decorated engraved glass beaker
Probably St. Petersburg Glassworks, period of Elizabeth I
The elongated thistle-shaped bowl with faceted bulbous lower part on circular foot, the body engraved with two oval medallions enclosing the gilt crowned monogram of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna and the gilt Imperial double-headed eagle amidst foliate sprays, apparently unmarked.
5 in. (12.8 cm.)
Probably St. Petersburg Glassworks, period of Elizabeth I
The elongated thistle-shaped bowl with faceted bulbous lower part on circular foot, the body engraved with two oval medallions enclosing the gilt crowned monogram of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna and the gilt Imperial double-headed eagle amidst foliate sprays, apparently unmarked.
5 in. (12.8 cm.)
Provenance
Collection of Bertel Hintze
Private Collection, Helsinki
Private Collection, Helsinki
Exhibited
Taidehalli Konsthallen, Helsinki, Old foreign art, Paintings, Rints, Glass and Russian Porcelain, January 1936. See exhibition catalogue, p. 32, no. 283.
Further details
Beakers of similar proportions and with related decoration, each engraved with portraits of the Empress, are in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (Corning, New York, Corning Museum of Glass, Russian Glass of the 17th-20th Centuries, April-October 1990, no. 5.) and the Hillwood Museum, Washington, D.C. (Anne Odom, Russian Glass at Hillwood, 2001, p. 24 fig. 12).