ANTIQUE.TWO-PART VASE-COMPOTIER: WILD FLOWERS blue frosted glass painting BAKHMETIEV 1840-50s

Antique two-part (composite) VASE-COMPOTIER: WILDFLOWERS, carved heavy dark blue muted glass, hand cutting and grinding, hand-painted with enamels and gold, BAKHMETIEV, Russia 1840-1850s (listed in the catalog). Dimensions: height - 17cm, stem height - 14.5cm, dish height - 3.5cm, dish diameter - 22cm, base diameter - 10.5cm, glass thickness - 0.5cm. Magnificent hand painting. On the bottom of the base is the letter "K": it is possible that the vase painting was done based on sketches by Fyodor Krasovsky (painter, "flower master" at the ISZ). Condition as in photos (microchip on the lower part of the base). Delivery of the lot to another region - Russian Post (or by courier service - by agreement). FOR REFERENCE: Fyodor Ivanovich Krasovsky (1820-1863) - son of a serf master painter on porcelain at the Popov porcelain factory. The products produced were very diverse. They produced both expensive custom-made services and simple tableware for people of moderate and low means. In addition to various tableware, these were sculptures, vases, and various porcelain items for the home. In 1835, Fyodor entered the St. Petersburg porcelain factory of the Kornilov brothers as an apprentice, and in 1839 - as a painter at the Imperial Porcelain Factory. The factory administration noted the master: "his work was distinguished by special artistic skill, remaining to this day excellent among all other painters of this kind." In 1861, the Academy of Arts "granted F.I. Krasovsky the title of Free Artist of painting flowers and fruits (on porcelain) for 'A Bouquet of Spring Flowers,' painted on canvas with oil paints." Artists of the IPZ were sometimes recruited to work at the ISZ. Fyodor Ivanovich was an enterprising man (soon after starting work at the IPZ, he was already able to purchase a house in St. Petersburg). It is possible that, striving to earn more, he also made sketches for Bakhmetyev (Bakhmetyev, fulfilling orders for the Court, had connections at the ISZ).

The Nikolo-Bakhmetyevsky Crystal Factory (Nikolo-Bakhmetyevsky (or Bakhmetyevsky) Crystal Factory) was founded in 1764 with the highest permission of Empress Catherine II by retired military officer Alexei Ivanovich Bakhmetyev on his own estate, in the village of Nikolo-Pestrovka, Penza Province. From the time of its foundation until 1884, the factory was managed by three generations of the Bakhmetyevs, in whose honor the factory bore the name Bakhmetyevsky. The Bakhmetyevs were related by marriage to the best families of Russia: the Trubetskoys, Gorchakovs, Volkonskys, Obolenskys, Tolstoys. The factory became the first private enterprise in its industry in Russia, one of the leading Russian crystal and glass manufacturers. Starting from 1795, the factory fulfilled orders for the highest nobility and the Church. Each such order was executed in a unique manner. Items, including those made of colored glass and crystal, were decorated with painting, enamel, paints, gold and silver, matte engraving, and diamond cutting. Ancient techniques were used - filigree (Venetian thread), imitation of chased gold and precious stones.

As early as 1789, N.A. Bakhmetyev, the son of the factory founder, with the aim of mastering the experience of the world's best glass and crystal producers, founded a museum of glass and crystal, where he began collecting the best examples of his factory's production and the best examples of European glass art, which were often used by the factory's masters as samples. In 1829, at the first All-Russian Exhibition of Manufactured Goods, the factory was awarded the Large Gold Medal for the exhibits presented. From 1836 to 1861, the family enterprise reached its peak prosperity. The highest award, the right to apply the State Emblem to its products, was received by the factory in 1836, and then this award was successively confirmed at exhibitions in Moscow in 1839, 1861, 1865 and in Nizhny Novgorod in 1896. In 1884, the factory passed by inheritance to a relative of the Bakhmetyevs, Prince Alexander Dmitrievich Obolensky. In 1900, at the World Paris Exhibition, the products of the Nikolo-Bakhmetyevsky Factory of Prince A.D. Obolensky were awarded the Large Gold Medal, and the masters received personalized bronze medals.