Lot 0150
Imperial Glass Manufactory. Glass with a Portrait of Empress Maria Alexandrovna
Estimate: 5000-6000€
Imperial glass manufactory. Glass with a portrait of Empress Maria Alexandrovna.
Workshop of P. P. Semechkin and K. I. Terebenev. Petersburg, 1840s
Amethyst-colored glass with gilt rim and lithographed decoration over the glaze.
Dimensions: 8.6 x 7.0 cm.
This glass is a vivid example of the production of the renowned St. Petersburg workshop of P. P. Semechkin and K. I. Terebenev, which specialized in decorating glass, porcelain, and faience with lithographed images combined with gilded and silver-painted floral and ornamental motifs. Among the most favored subjects were portraits of members of the Imperial family.
The decoration features a rare portrait of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna (1824–1880; from 1855, Empress of Russia). The image is based on a lithograph executed in 1841 by R. F. Dragunov to commemorate the marriage of Grand Duke Alexander Nikolaevich (the future Emperor Alexander II) to Princess Maximiliane Wilhelmine Augusta Sophia Maria of Hesse-Darmstadt, baptized into Orthodoxy as Maria Alexandrovna.
Starting price: 4000€
Estimate: 5000-6000€
Hammer Price: UNSOLD€
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