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A pair of silver-mounted glass decantersFabergé, with Imperial Warrant, Moscow, circa 1900
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each bulbous body, etched with amber-over-yellow Rococo revival foliate scrollwork and shell motifs, the silver mounts echoing these themes with monogrammed 'M' within reserves, 84 standard height of each: 37cm (14 1/2in).
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Private collection, Scotland
According to the letter of presentation, the decanters were originally gifted by a 'Pce L. Wiasemsky', writing to an English correspondent in the 'hope that in making use of these flasks, you will sometimes remember your friends in Russia'.
It is documented that Fabergé workmasters sometimes integrated foreign materials into their designs. Here, the bodies were made by Stevens and Williams, a glass company based in the West Midlands and appear to be very similar to the work of Joshua Hodgetts.
There is an identical example illustrated in Andy McConnell, The Decanter: An Illustrated History of Glass from 1650, 2004, p. 388, pl. 542, illustrated; also illustrated in George Savage, Glass and Glassware, 1973, p. 70.
For further examples of foreign glass with Fabergé mounts in the Queen's collection see Fabergé in the Royal Collection, Caroline de Guitaut, pl. 336, p. 241.