A cut-glass decanter from a Banquet Service by the Imperial Glassworks, St Petersburg, 19th century

A cut-glass decanter from a Banquet Service by the Imperial Glassworks, St Petersburg, 19th century

Of traditional form, with lobed sides and ring-moulded waisted neck, with lobed hexafoil stopper, the body centring an enamelled gold foil inclusion depicting the conjoined arms of the Naryshkin and Czetwertynski families, the rim inscribed 5, otherwise unmarked

height 28.6 cm, 11¼ in.