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A cameo glass vaseGus Crystal Works, early 20th century
27 November 2013, 14:00 GMT
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A cameo glass vase
Gus Crystal Works, early 20th century
of baluster form, the opalescent walls decorated with tulips in shades of purple, signed in Cyrillic ''YU.S.N.M. N-k Gus-Krust' (Yuri Stepanovich Nechayev-Maltsov, heir of Gus' Khrustal'nyy)
height: 45.5cm (17 15/16in).
of baluster form, the opalescent walls decorated with tulips in shades of purple, signed in Cyrillic ''YU.S.N.M. N-k Gus-Krust' (Yuri Stepanovich Nechayev-Maltsov, heir of Gus' Khrustal'nyy)
height: 45.5cm (17 15/16in).
Footnotes
For another cameo glass vase made by the Gus Crystal Works, see Exhibition Catalogue, Russian Glass of the 17th-20th Centuries, Corning, New York, 1990, no.60, p.105.
In late 18th century Russia, private glass works sprang up to satisfy the buying appetites of a burgeoning middle class who could not access the output of the Imperial workshops. The Maltsov family were probably the most successful, establishing a dynastic network of private glassworks expanding from the outskirts of Moscow to Gus Khrustalny in Vladimir.
Towards the end of the 19th century, the taste for Art Nouveau gripped Russia and with the Imperial Glass Manufactory producing individual pieces for the court elite, the taste for luxury French glass on display in the royal apartments trickled through to the more affordable mass-produced. The Gus Crystal Works responded by creating vases and lampstands with deep etched floral designs in the style of Galle. The factory also drew from the styles and workmanship of European glassworks at the turn of the 20th century, particularly in the methods and techniques of Austrian and Bohemian glassworks such as the Bohemian firm owned by the widow of Johann Lotz.
Upon the death of the childless Ivan Sergeyevich Maltsov in 1880, control of the glassworks passed to a nephew, Yuri Stepanovich Nechayev-Maltsov (1834-1913). He was a prominent collector, patron and owner of gold mines who contributed to the building of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and to St. George's Cathedral in Gus Khrustalny which now houses a glass museum.