A painted glass and gem-set sherry decanter, 19th century

the bulbous lower body with slim neck and tapering foot decorated in Pan-Slavic style with gilt strapwork and geometric motifs, the whole profusely set with coloured glass beads, with domed cut stopper

Several of the glass beads are missing from the decanter. The gilding is worn, consistent with age and use.
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The glass decanter is very similar in design to work by Ippolit Monigetti for the Imperial Glassworks. For a further example of his work see the glass decorated with ornamental beads and dated 1870, held in the State Historical Museum collection and illustrated:  O.B. Strugova, et al, Russkii stil. Sobranie Gosudarstvennogo Istoricheskogo muzeia, Moscow, 1999, pp. 152-153, no. 351.