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Lot 93

A Russian overlay and enamelled bottle and a liquor glass by the Imperial Glass Works, St. Petersburg, mid 19th century

21 May 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Russian overlay and enamelled bottle and a liquor glass by the Imperial Glass Works, St. Petersburg, mid 19th century

With gilt detailed overlay in opaque white and cut with Gothic panels, both finely painted with birds and floral sprays incorporating pink roses and other flowers, with a star-cut base, 17.7cm and 10cm high (gilding rubbed, small chip to footrim of liquor glass) (2)

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The Imperial Glass Works, St. Petersburg, manufactured a profusion of articles in the multi-layered glass technique throughout the 1840s. Russian artisans were heavily influenced by contemporary Bohemian glassmakers, attempting to imitate their style as they were very fashionable at the time. Designs such as this were usually commissioned from artists Bude and Bosse, who worked for the Imperial Porcelain Factory and specialised in flower, fruit and putti compositions on pale backgrounds. A glass tazza with very similar painting is illustrated in Imperial Glass Factory, 1777-1917: 225th Foundation Day anniversary, catalogue of exhibition (2004), p. 74, cat. 385. A glass bottle decorated in a very similar style is in the collection of The State Hermitage Museum.

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