The glass made of colorless transparent crystal of cylindrical shape, on a six-petalled base. In the centre, in the space between the upper reliefs, there is a rectangular reserve with bevelled corners, featuring a profile portrait of Emperor Nicholas I facing right, made of white paste using the cameo inlay technique based on a medal by V.E. Alekseev dated 1826.
 "Cameo inlay" (other names are "sulfides", "crystal ceramics") refers to the technology of "melting" white paste into glass or crystal mass, which was invented in Bohemia in the middle of the 18^th century. White reliefs were made of various materials – biscuit porcelain, alabaster, ceramic paste, plaster, milk glass. Glass items with cameo inlay appeared in Russia no earlier than in the 1820s. They were produced in small batches or single-piece ‘for special occasions’ – memorable dates, historical events, as gifts and souvenirs. Initially, they were created at the Imperial Glass Factory, and later at the Nikolsko-Pestrovsky Bakhmetev plant and the Maltzovs' factories.

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