A GROUP OF TWO GLASS GOBLETS, A COBALT BLUE GLASS CUP AND A PLASTER PLAQUE
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A GROUP OF TWO GLASS GOBLETS, A COBALT BLUE GLASS CUP AND A PLASTER PLAQUE

GLASS GOBLETS, PROBABLY IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY; COBALT BLUE GLASS CUP, BY KONSTANTIN TEREBNEV AND PAVEL SEMECHKIN, CIRCA 1840; PLASTER PLAQUE, CIRCA 1820

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A GROUP OF TWO GLASS GOBLETS, A COBALT BLUE GLASS CUP AND A PLASTER PLAQUE
GLASS GOBLETS, PROBABLY IMPERIAL GLASSWORKS, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY; COBALT BLUE GLASS CUP, BY KONSTANTIN TEREBNEV AND PAVEL SEMECHKIN, CIRCA 1840; PLASTER PLAQUE, CIRCA 1820
One goblet, with wide gilt rim, centring a cartouche painted with a portrait of General Wittgenstein in profile, the reverse inscribed with Russian poem 'To precede the enemy to strike and shout / These are the distinctive traits of this Hero / Petropol’! Are you not going to remember it / He was the guard of your peace of mind', the foot with pie-crust edge; the other goblet, with a circular matte glass cartouche, painted with a peasant girl; the blue glass cup, the body faceted, one side decorated with gilt flowers, the other with a portrait of Emperor Nicholas I after a portrait by Franz Kruger; the plaster plaque, after count Feodor Tolstoy, depicting Alexander I as God Rodomysl; all apparently unmarked; together with a partially gilt glass pedestal
5 in. (12.7 cm.) high and smaller