beaker

Object NameDouble-Walled Beaker

Maker Aleksandr Petrowitsch Vershinin

Maker Bakhmetiev Crystal Works

Made FromNon-lead glass

Dateabout 1800-1820

Place MadeRussia, Nikol'skoye

Techniqueblown, enameled, gilt, double-walled

SizeOverall H: 11.5 cm; Rim Diam: 8 cm

Accession Number79.3.300

Credit LineGift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

Drinking Glasses Through the Ages

Glass Drinking Vessels from the Strauss Collection

On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery

Physical DescriptionColorless non-lead glass; blown, enameled, gilt, double-walled technique. Tapered, straight-sided shape, with panel-cut sides and cut flutes at the base; black-enameled border on the inside and out, decorated with gilt bands of acorns and leaves; swags of gilt flowers and foliage; double-walled enclosing an oval medallion of pearls and lifelike silk flowers enclosing the crowned gilt monogram "JS" or "TS", with swags of silk flowers and silk leaves, and a scene on the reverse of two wood huts with two swans in a pond in the foreground, with three people crossing a bridge, another figure rowing a boat, and another house in the background; polished concave base, and polished pontil mark on the bottom of the inner glass.
Provenance

Source Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation - 1979

Former Collection Frederick Neuberg