A GROUP OF TWENTY RUSSIAN IMPERIAL GLASSES, POTEMKIN GLASS FACTORY [LATER THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY], 1790S LOT NOTES The Potemkin Glass Factory was presented to Prince Grigory Potemkin in 1777 by Empress Catherine the Great, and returned to the state after Potemkin`s death, at which point it was renamed the Imperial Glass Factory. LITERATURE Tamara Malinina, Imperial Glass Factory 18th-early 20th century, (St. Petersburg: State Hermitage Publishers, 2009), p. 89, 262-263, ill. p. 265
A GROUP OF TWENTY RUSSIAN IMPERIAL GLASSES, POTEMKIN GLASS FACTORY [LATER THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY], 1790S LOT NOTES The Potemkin Glass Factory was presented to Prince Grigory Potemkin in 1777 by Empress Catherine the Great, and returned to the state after Potemkin`s death, at which point it was renamed the Imperial Glass Factory. LITERATURE Tamara Malinina, Imperial Glass Factory 18th-early 20th century, (St. Petersburg: State Hermitage Publishers, 2009), p. 89, 262-263, ill. p. 265
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