Rare! Golden ruby vase with milk glass medallions

Antique vase, about the middle of the 19th century, made by masters of Bohemia. Initially it was higher, the broken neck was polished, but after years there were small chips along the upper edge. The body is decorated with three medallions made of milk glass with hand-painted, all the subjects are different. There are minor scuffs paintings.


Golden ruby is the name of pink glass, for the coloring of which a solution of real gold was used.
In Russia, the task of obtaining ruby glass was solved by Mikhail Lomonosov, although up to this point such glass was produced according to various recipes from antiquity. The experiments ended with the production of small samples of smalt - opaque muffled glass used for mosaic works. At the end of the 18th century, ruby glass was produced by the Imperial Glass Factory, Potemkin, and some other private factories.