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AN ENGRAVED GLASS GOBLET
Lot 295

AN ENGRAVED GLASS GOBLET

BY THE IMPERIAL GLASS WORKS, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF CATHERINE II

Closed6 June 2011

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GBP 11,250

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AN ENGRAVED GLASS GOBLET
BY THE IMPERIAL GLASS WORKS, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF CATHERINE II
On a circular spreading foot, with faceted knopped stem, one side engraved with the Imperial double-headed eagle and the monogram of Catherine II flanked by foliate sprays, the other side depicting the Empress in profile below a baldacchino supported by two angels, apparently unmarked
9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm.) high

Specialist note

For a related glass goblet by the Imperial Glass Works see T.I. Dulkina and N.A. Asharina, Russkaia keramika i steklo 18-19 vekov: Sobranie Gosudarstvennogo Istoricheskogo Muzeia, Moscow, 1978, p. 29, no. 8.