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The royal procession of Piedigrotta seen from the west
The royal procession of Piedigrotta seen from the east
Portrait of Louise Loy Smart
Portrait of Louis Dufort-Duras Earl of Feversham
King David and the water carriers, Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
Night snow in Kambara
Mario Furio Camillo arrives in Rome to negotiate with the Gauls
Mystical marriage of Saint Catherine
Madonna
Prayer before the storm
Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte
Portrait of Michele Coronini Cronberg
Pair of glasses
Spoil
Shelf clock
Pair of cafes
Pair of salt cellars
Pitcher and sugar bowl
Spring
About the game of chess
Shelf clock
Desk service
Shotgun
Cup with saucer
The man who looks at the sun
The sneeze
Bureau-cabinet
Spoil
Wedding fan
Folding fan
Dress with tailcoat, breeches and waistcoat
Cup with saucer
Glass
Bracelet with miniature portrait of Count Edwin de Fagan
Soup bowl
Etagère with mirror
The Visitation

Pair of glasses

Anonymous

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Palazzo Coronini Cronberg Foundation

Palazzo Coronini Cronberg Foundation

Viale XX Settembre, 14, Gorizia

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The refined decoration of these cylindrical goblets, slightly flared upwards, is obtained from the contrast between the two bands with a perfectly smooth and polished surface, at the base and the upper edge, and the central part of the body, richly decorated with plant racemes and volutes in nielloed silver that stand out against a rough golden background, created through dense chisel patterning. Moscow was one of the major production centers of niellated objects as confirmed by the provenance of the two glasses in question, made by a silversmith whose name has not been handed down, but whose initials AK are found on numerous objects produced between 1835 and 1849 which show precise executive and decorative affinities with the two Coronini pieces. The niello, an ancient technique which consists in filling the grooves engraved on a metal surface with a dark colored mixture, composed of silver, copper, lead and sulfur in variable proportions, was widely used by Russian goldsmiths and silversmiths since the tenth century, giving life to a tradition that reached its apogee in the sixteenth century, but which still continued to express itself in works of great originality in the nineteenth century.
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Title: Pair of glasses

Author: Anonymous

Date: 1845

Technique: Gilded and niellated silver

Displayed in: Palazzo Coronini Cronberg Foundation

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