The wine decanter from the museum’s exposition was produced at the turn of the 20th century. It was made of colorless glass in the Art Nouveau style. With its curved, flowing lines and wavy patterns, the new style resonated with decorative and applied art, especially glass art. Each flower, stalk, bud, and branch became a worthy subject for Art Nouveau artists. They strove to uncover the secret of expressing the internal energy of shapes with the help of lines and color, and of combining biological accuracy with the abstract nature of human thought. In Russian art, floral patterns were a typical decoration for porcelain and glass, but earlier they had always been limited to the realistic images of flowers and bouquets. The Art Nouveau artists offered their own interpretation of nature by transforming it into decorative motifs and emphasizing the wavy and flowing shapes of objects.

At the turn of the 20th century, the Dyatkovo Crystal Factory produced numerous items in the Art Nouveau style. In the museum’s exposition, it is represented by a rich collection of items in the 19th-century art hall. The factory’s craftsmen used their technological and artistic methods to give their items a unique design. A great example of their interpretation of the Art Nouveau style is this wine decanter shaped as an elegant amphora on a stem. The silver frosted surface depicts a young woman with her golden hair let down, wearing a classical dress with a red belt blown by the wind. She stands on a realistically depicted strawberry bush with golden leaves and red juicy berries.

The surface of the decanter was frosted using hydrofluoric acid. The colorful image was created using high enamels — special relief paints. The relief is achieved by the high surface tension of such paints. They are applied to the glass surface and do not run during the annealing process. The glass is annealed at a temperature of 540–560 ºС and should be heated gradually.