This serving dish for desserts in the "Russo-Byzantine" style was made at the Imperial Glassworks in the 1860s to a design by Ippolito Monighetti. It has a traditional shape - a bowl with a carved knob on the stem - reminiscent of an Early Russian chalice. The piece has been made from two-layered glass, milk glass inside and red glass outside and painted with gold on the bright red background. Its surface is decorated with drops of coloured glass imitating precious stones: sapphires, emeralds and turquoises.