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LOT 451 451
A RUSSIAN IMPERIAL GLASS COMMEMORATIVE BEAKER, 1912
1912
the cylindrical ribbed glass cup topped by a thick gilded rim and mounted with two opaline medallions, the front oval featuring a painted portrait of Count M.A. Miloradovich, the reverse decorated with the inscription "For Faith, Tsar, and Fatherland " beneath a double-headed eagle bearing the cypher of Alexander I, 11.7 cm (4 5/8 in.)
LOT NOTES
This and other such beakers were produced by the Imperial Glass Factory to commemorate the Centenary of the Patriotic War of 1812. Count Mikhail Andreyevich Miloradovich was a prominent Russian general during the Napoleonic Wars.
the cylindrical ribbed glass cup topped by a thick gilded rim and mounted with two opaline medallions, the front oval featuring a painted portrait of Count M.A. Miloradovich, the reverse decorated with the inscription "For Faith, Tsar, and Fatherland " beneath a double-headed eagle bearing the cypher of Alexander I, 11.7 cm (4 5/8 in.)
LOT NOTES
This and other such beakers were produced by the Imperial Glass Factory to commemorate the Centenary of the Patriotic War of 1812. Count Mikhail Andreyevich Miloradovich was a prominent Russian general during the Napoleonic Wars.
Estimate: $9,000 – $11,000
Lot State: Sold
