DECANTER
Creator(s): Unknown (Manufacturer)
On view in: Russian Porcelain Room
About this object
Milk glass decanter has a bulbous body enamelled with three panels depicting a quiver in red surmounting three crossed arrows. The tips of only two arrows are visible and they point down. This entire device is placed against a blue ribbon. This decoration alternates with three panels of stylized decoration in green and blue. Rest of body and neck has wide and narrow bands of gilding. Neck is decorated with four one-inch wide bands of gilding. Lower body is painted with three smaller bands. On stopper is a gilded sunburst.
- Object name:
- DECANTER
- Made from:
- Glass
- Made in:
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Date made:
- c. 1800
- Size:
- 19.1 cm (7 1/2 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 23.31.1-2
- Class:
- GLASS
- Signature marks:
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973