A FIVE-PIECE GARNITURE OF BLUE-JOHN AND ALABASTER URNS AND COLUMNS SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY Comprising a large urn with part-reeded body inset with blue-john fluting, on a fluorspar and Ashford black marble plinth; a pair of tapering columns surmounted by vases on blue-john and Ashford black marble plinths; and a pair of small urns matching the larger on blue-john and Ashford black marble plinths 19 ½ in. (49.5 cm.) high; 18 ½ in. (47 cm.) high; and 11 ¼ in. (28.5 cm.) high respectively Provenance Princess Helena Sergevna Scherbatoff (1826-55), married to Gustaf of Nordin (1799-1867) in St. Petersburg in 1846. By descent to their daughter Olga (1847-95), married to count Carl Gustaf Lewenhaupt (1834-1908), Aske Mansion, Hatuna Socken, county of Uppsala, Sweden. Thence by descent. Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 4 June 1998, lots 1-3.
A FIVE-PIECE GARNITURE OF BLUE-JOHN AND ALABASTER URNS AND COLUMNS SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY Comprising a large urn with part-reeded body inset with blue-john fluting, on a fluorspar and Ashford black marble plinth; a pair of tapering columns surmounted by vases on blue-john and Ashford black marble plinths; and a pair of small urns matching the larger on blue-john and Ashford black marble plinths 19 ½ in. (49.5 cm.) high; 18 ½ in. (47 cm.) high; and 11 ¼ in. (28.5 cm.) high respectively Provenance Princess Helena Sergevna Scherbatoff (1826-55), married to Gustaf of Nordin (1799-1867) in St. Petersburg in 1846. By descent to their daughter Olga (1847-95), married to count Carl Gustaf Lewenhaupt (1834-1908), Aske Mansion, Hatuna Socken, county of Uppsala, Sweden. Thence by descent. Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 4 June 1998, lots 1-3.
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