A set of six glass tumblers and a decanter from the Imperial Banquet service

Imperial Glass Factory, St. Petersburg, 1850s

Imperial Glass Factory, St. Petersburg, 1850s
decanter: of mallet form, body with lobed sides and ring-moulded waisted neck with scalloped stopper, centred with a circular medallion enamelled with ermine mantel under the Imperial Russian crown and Cyrillic monogram 'AM'; tumbler: round form with straight lobbed sides, centring an enamelled gold foil inclusion depicting the crowned initial 'A' on an ermine mantling, probably for Emperor Alexander II, all unmarked (7)
height of decanter: 24.7cm (9 3/4in); height of tumbler: 8.5cm (3 3/8in).

Provenance
Acquired by a private American collector in the USA, 1940s
Thence by descent