GOBLET
Creator(s): Bakhmetev Glassworks (Attributed to)
On view in: Russian Porcelain Room
About this object
Base is plain and stem is six sided. Main part is ribbed in a circular fashion. On front is an oval medallion of milk glass with a gold edge, containing a gilded inscription topped by the crowned cipher of Alexander I.
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 23.227
- Class:
- GLASS
- Signature marks:
- CIPHER cipher of Alexander I below crown [in tooled gilt on white glass medallion on front of glass; the A is in cursive, the left arm composed of flowering and scrolling forms. The number I appears below the A.] INSCRIPTION Parizh vziat/19 Marta/1814 [In gilt on white glass medallion on front of glass; Translation: Paris is taken, March 19, 1814]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973