LIQUER GLASS WITH CIPHER OF EMPEROR ALEXANDER I
Creator(s): Bakhmetev Glassworks (Attributed to)
On view in: Russian Porcelain Room
About this object
The lip of the bowl is cut in and completely gilded. Affixed to the front of the bowl is a circular white glass medallion with a gilt edge containing the gilded cipher of Alexander I topped by a crown above an inscription in Russian reading: "Paris was taken on March 19, 1814." The body is cut in eight vertical, parallel, deeply cut channels. The stem is faceted in 7 channels. The base is plain.
- Object name:
- LIQUER GLASS WITH CIPHER OF EMPEROR ALEXANDER I
- Made from:
- Glass
- Made in:
- Russia
- Date made:
- 1814-1830
- Size:
- 11.4 cm (4 1/2 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 23.228
- Class:
- GLASS
- Signature marks:
- MONOGRAM Cipher of Alexander I [In gilt on white glass medallion] INSCRIPTION Parizh" vziat" / 19 Marta / 1814. [In gilt Cyrillic on white glass medallion; Trans: Paris was taken on March 19, 1814.]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973