A GROUP OF THREE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL GLASS DECANTERS, POTEMKIN GLASS FACTORY [LATER THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY], 1790S each of cylindrical form with an elongated neck, each with faceted sides, two with additional patterned cut glass on the shoulder and ornate gilded decoration featuring elegant courtiers in a vegetative landscape, all with bands of gilding and gilded spherical stoppers, height of tallest: 21.5 cm (8 1/2 in.), height of shortest: 18 cm (7 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. 267