A RUSSIAN FACETED COLOR GROUND BOUQUET WEIGHT
Possibly by the Imperial Glass Factory, St. Petersburg, 19th century
The slightly grey glass set with a pink and white ribbon-tied bouquet, the center with a striated blue and white petalled flower with pink stamen enclosed by six smaller cobalt-blue dahlias resting on green sepals and growing from five green stems, the periphery with a surround of clematis-inspired flowers including four pink and yellow blossoms, two striated blue and yellow blossoms with pink stamen, and a striated pink and white blossom with black tips, all resting on green sepals, above an opaque white ground, the top cut with a decagonal window and ten side facets, on a short duodecagonal pedestal base
3 1/8 in. (8 cm.) diameter; 2 in. (5 cm.) high
A RUSSIAN FACETED COLOR GROUND BOUQUET WEIGHT
Possibly by the Imperial Glass Factory, St. Petersburg, 19th century
The slightly grey glass set with a pink and white ribbon-tied bouquet, the center with a striated blue and white petalled flower with pink stamen enclosed by six smaller cobalt-blue dahlias resting on green sepals and growing from five green stems, the periphery with a surround of clematis-inspired flowers including four pink and yellow blossoms, two striated blue and yellow blossoms with pink stamen, and a striated pink and white blossom with black tips, all resting on green sepals, above an opaque white ground, the top cut with a decagonal window and ten side facets, on a short duodecagonal pedestal base
3 1/8 in. (8 cm.) diameter; 2 in. (5 cm.) high
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