A RARE COMMEMORATIVE CUT-GLASS GOBLET AND COVER

Lot 214
23.11.2020 14:00UTC +00:00
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ID 435147
Lot 214 | A RARE COMMEMORATIVE CUT-GLASS GOBLET AND COVER
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£ 8 000 – 12 000
A RARE COMMEMORATIVE CUT-GLASS GOBLET AND COVER

BY THE IMPERIAL GLASS FACTORY OR BAKHMETEV GLASS FACTORY, RUSSIA, CIRCA 1814

Funnel-shaped bowl cut with fine diamond pattern, with wide gilt rim, with a circular white glass medallion within a gilt edge, painted with a figure of an angel blowing a trumpet and holding a laurel wreath, above a stylised map of Europe inscribed in Russian with names of cities and dates of the main battles in the Napoleonic Wars, the foot with pie-crust edge, with a detachable cover surmounted by a finial, apparently unmarked

6 ¾ in. (17 cm.) high, with cover

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