VASE
Creator(s): Unknown (Manufacturer)
On view in: Passageway to Dining Room
About this object
Glass is reddish color. Center piece is squat, bulging large at bottom, then a small bulge and a round top. On one side of the large bulge is a medallion with a gold border and flags at either side. Inside is the bust of General-Field Marshal Prince Kutuzov Smolensky in black on white enamel. On smaller bulge is a double headed eagle bearing swords and swags of laurel, on reverse and on front is a wreath in gilding and 1812 inside and flags on either side. On other side of large bulge is a medallion with portrait of Prince Barclay de Tolly.
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 23.212
- Class:
- GLASS
- Signature marks:
- INSCRIPTIONS КН. КУТУЗОВЪ-СМОЛЕНСКИЙ 1812 г. [Pr. Kutuzov-Smolensky, 1812] [Above portrait on medallion] КН. БАРКЛАЙ - И - ТОЛЛИ 1812 г. [Pr. Barclay de Tolly, 1812] [Above portrait on second medallion]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973