ID 1357904
Lot 19 | A PAIR OF LARGE TWO-HANDLED IMPERIAL PORCELAIN VASES
Estimate value
$ 120 000 – 180 000
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST. PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS I, 1829
Each of amphora form, the body painted with decorative reserves designed as architectural Gothic arches supported by ciselé gilt columns, enclosing rosettes and neoclassic motifs and ornaments, such as swans, lyres, laurel and acanthus foliage, all on blue ground, the waisted flared neck and everted rim with gilt acanthus and leaf-tip borders, the body flanked by two upswept palmette-capped scrolling handles, the lower section gilt and molded with rising palmettes and acanthus, on a waisted gilt socle, the matte gold leaf-molded foot on a square ormolu base, both inscribed inside the neck in Russian ‘Imp[erial]: Por[celain]: Factory / 1829’
28 ¾ in. (73 cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 30 November 1971, lot 106.
| Applied technique: | Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic, Porcelain |
| Place of origin: | Eastern Europe, Europe, Russia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Vases and vessels |
| Applied technique: | Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic, Porcelain |
| Place of origin: | Eastern Europe, Europe, Russia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Vases and vessels |
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