The Imperial Glass Works 1840s
A Russian clear glass goblet, front engraved with two doves and below the Alexander Column in front of the Guard Headquaters on the Palace Square at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, the reverse engraved with two doves holding a ribbon, under which a monogram with date August 30 1834 and vines below, scalloped base. The Imperial Glass Works. H. 13.5 cm.
August 30 1844 was the day of the revelation of the Alexander Column, devoted to Tsar Alexander I of Russia, the conqueror of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Provenance: Acquired in Russia before 1946 by the Norwegian Commercial Attaché in Moscow Einar Krane (1885–1958) and his Russian wife Ekaterina Krane (1885–1974). Thence by descents until today.
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Russian art & icons, 1 December 2017