beaker

Object NameBeaker

Maker Bachmetev Glass House

Maker Petersburg Glass House

Made FromGlass

Date1815

Techniquedecorated with enameled medallion, gilded, cut

SizeOverall H: 9.2 cm; Rim Diam: 7.5 cm

Accession Number60.3.48

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Place Made

Russia

Physical DescriptionHeavy clear glass; decorated with enameled white glass medallion, gilded and cut. Cylindrical body with flat base having very slight pontil mark; the beaker has a pattern of horizontally oriented cut ridges; a medallion is applied and fused to the obverse; it consists of a layer of opaque white glass, showing in sepia enameling the profile portrait of Tsar Alexander I in uniform; above, in Russian: "Liberator of Europe"; the edge of the medallion as well as the plain rim of the beaker are gilded, the rim being gilded also on the interior; an "X" is engraved below the medallion at the edge of the beaker, slightly off center, apparently to indicate where the medallion is supposed to be.
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