Glass with glass-to-glass decoration
Glass with glass-to-glass decoration
Russian Empire, Penza Province, Gorodishchensky district, Nikolskoe village
Late 18th - early 19th centuries
Vershinin Alexander, Nikolsko-Pestrovsky Bakhmetev plant
Translucent colourless glass; grinding, gold and enamel painting, collage (dry leaves, moss, straws, smalt, colored paper), blowing
Height 10.2 cm; diameter 8.1 cm
The glass is of colorless translucent glass, cylindrical in shape, with double faceted walls. The composition of rural life "panoramic" landscape featuring the lake with swimming swans, herds, anglers, strolling men, farmsteads is placed between the glass walls. The glass top edge is decorated with gold rhombic ornament located on dark background; the bottom – with the band of intersecting wavy curved "grasses".
Инв.8345/ДПИ