Caviar serving bowl in the form of wooden bucket with with detachable pear-shaped lid with grip and monogram “CA” beneath the noble crown on the tray crown, on the tray
Caviar serving bowl in the form of wooden bucket with with detachable pear-shaped lid with grip and monogram “CA” beneath the noble crown on the tray crown, on the tray
Russian Empire, Saint-Petersburg
The 1850s
Imperial Glass Factory
Laminated glass, silver; faceting, carving, casting, chasing
Height 9.7 cm, plate diameter 16.5 cm, caviar serving bowl diameter 9.8 cm
Marks: “OGE”, "Д∙Т/1850”; Saint-Petersburg coat of arms; alloy "84”
Three-layer glass caviar serving bowl (transpicuous, colorless, frosted and opaque turquoise color glass) in the form of wooden bucket, with detachable silver lid topped with grip, on round silver stand-tray. The bowl body is decorated with the stylized colorless frosted plant shoot with leaves and berries on turquoise background.
Grips are ornated with colorless quadrifoil on frosted background on the internal side and on turquoise background – on the external side. Pear-shaped lid grip, with leaves. The tray is in the form of round plate with ornately shaped side.
The so-called “wooden buckets” were designed for serving caviar.
Инв.8924.1-3/ДПИ