A GROUP OF 4 RUSSIAN IMPERIAL CUT-GLASS BEAKERS AND STEMMED GLASSES, POTEMKIN GLASS FACTORY [LATER THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY], 1790S comprising of two stemmed glasses and two beakers, all with faceted sides with ornate gilded decoration featuring people in landscapes, the stemmed glasses on a cut-glass stem, height of each glass: 14 cm (5 1/2 in.)
LOT NOTES The Potemkin Glass Factory was presented to Prince Grigory Potemkin in 1777 by Empress Catherine the Great, and returned to the state after Potemkin`s death, at which point it was renamed the Imperial Glass Factory.
LITERATURE Tamara Malinina, Imperial Glass Factory 18th-early 20th century, (St. Petersburg: State Hermitage Publishers, 2009), p. 89, 262-263, ill. p. 263
