Russian candlesticks

Description

Imperial Glassworks, circa 1900, in the rock crystal manner, shaped as vases on pedestals, engraved with the initials HLH within oval panels suspended from bow-tied ribbons and with leaf swags, repeated on the square pedestal base with canted corners, 15.2cm high

For a pair of very similar vases with the crowned Cyrillic cypher of Tsar Nicholas II and date 1914 see Sotheby’s, Fine European Ceramics & Glass, London 2nd June 2005, lot 117