A small Russian glass bowl, Imperial Glass Manufactory, St Petersburg, 19th century.

Transparent glass, diamante cut décor of alternating series of lozenges and circles with wavy leaf trails and diaper pattern. Lenght 9,5 cm.

Minor fritts.

Provenance

Part of the ”Собственный Сервиз дворца Коттедж”/”Own Service of the Cottage Palace”.

Produced to be used in the Her Majesty the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna’s Cottage Palace in the Alexandria Park in Peterhof.

The empress Alexandra Feodorovna (Императрица Александра Фёдоровна, 1798-1860) was a consort of the emperor Nicholas I (царь Николай I).

The raised blue coat of arms bears the Palace’s arms and motto in Russian: ”За Веру, Царя и Отечество”/”For Faith, Tsar and Fatherland” The coat of arms medieval motifs correspond with the Gothic Revival style of the Cottage.

Service was designed by A.I. Ivanov, The shield was designed by the poet Vasily Zhukovsky, a close friend of Alexander Pushkin.

Literature

Tamara Malinina, Imperial Glass Factory, St. Petersburg, The State Hermitage Publishers, 2009, sid.270.
Karen Kettering, Russian Glass at Hillwood, Washington, DC, 2001, pp. 41-43.

More information

Service was designed by A.I. Ivanov, The shield was designed by the poet Vasily Zhukovsky, a close friend of Alexander Pushkin.

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