Wine glass from the Bakhmetevs set
Wine glass from the Bakhmetevs set
Russian Empire, Saint-Petersburg
The 1840-1850s
Imperial Glass Factory
Translucent, colourless crystal; blowing, faceting, grinding
Height 10.6 cm, diameter 5.4 cm
Translucent colourless wine glass with cylindrical cup on decahedral stem and a two-stepped round base with scalloped edge. The bowl surface is decorated with the "Bakhmetevs facet" that consists of oval smoothly polished low vertical reliefs ("bamboos") with oval "lenses" and "stars", from below and above framed by the moulding of truncated pyramidal elements ("stone" or "strawberry diamond"). “Diamond star” processing is in the base centre. Prominent lips’ edge with smooth facet.
Инв.8326/ДПИ