A RUSSIAN IMPERIAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED COLBALT BLUE AND CUT CRYSTAL VASE, AFTER A DESIGN BY I. A. IVANOV, RUSSIAN IMPERIAL GLASS FACTORY, 1820S
of Medici form, the body with alternating bands of cobalt blue and diamond-cut crystal, with a central band of laurel leaves, the bronze base with chased acanthus leaves surrounded by a laurel wreath base, height: 32.5 cm (12 3/4 in.)
LITERATURE
This vase, with a slightly modified bronze base is in the collection of the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, and is illustrated and discussed in Tamara Malina, Imperial Glass Factory: 18th-early 20th Centuries, (St. Petersburg: State Hermitage Publishers, 2009), pp. 200-201.