A CUT GLASS COVERED MUG
BY THE IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS FACTORY, CIRCA 1814
Barrelshaped, with geometric pattern and wide gold rim, with a circular white glass panel painted in sepia with the profile of Count Wittgenstein (restored)
6¾ in. (17.2 cm.) high
Lot Essay
For a covered mug with a similar profile of Count Wittgenstein, see The Corning Museum of Glass, Russian Glass of the 17th-20th Centuries, New York, 1990, p. 83.
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