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This banquet service made of crystal glass and decorated
with enamel painting and gilding was commissioned for Alexander II's yacht
Derzhava from the Imperial Glassworks. It was created to designs by Ippolito
Monighetti between 1870 and 1873. In the decoration of the service, as
in the finishing of the yacht, the architect used ornament in the form
of twined ropes and anchor chains, as well as the Russo-Byzantine motifs
of "rosettes in circles". Monighetti introduced features of
the national style into the shapes and decoration of the items in the
service - beads incorporated into the stems of the taller vessels and
stylized in imitation of the onion domes of churches give the pieces a
"Russian" flavour.
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