Russian Art Glass and Ceramics

Paired decanters with ornamental painting, with stoppers

    Paired decanters with ornamental painting, with stoppers

    Russian Empire, Penza province, Gorodishchensky district, Nikolskoye village

    The 1820s

    Nikolsko-Pestrovsky Bakhmetev factory

    Transparent, colorless glass; blowing, grinding, engraving

    Height of each – 25.0 cm, diameter – 8.0 cm

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    Paired decanters are from colorless transparent glass with ovoid-shaped body, high neck with a flat crown , with stoppers.
    The lower and upper parts of the body are decorated with friezes of circular and semi-oval lenses, each segment of which features painted images of flowers and stylized pomegranate fruits, made in gold. A wide painted belt with the images of lyres, cornucopias and swans, made of gold and silver, adorns the central part. 

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