A pair of monumental two-handled porcelain vases by the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg, period of Nicholas I, 1844 Each of amphora form, on square ormolu sockle, the domed foot, rim and dividing bands gilt, with moulded foliate calyx and reeded foliate scroll handles of burnished and ciselé gilding, with broad borders of grisaille and ciselé gilt scrolls on white ground, the body of each painted with an Old Master painting, dated, inscribed and signed in Cyrillic, one depicing 'Departure for the Hunt' after P. Wouverman (lower left) and further inscribed in red in the inner rims of the body mai 1844 , the other with a Woodland road, after BOTH (lower left), both painted, signed and dated by P. Shchetinin 1844 (lower right), marked inside necks 53¾ in. (139 cm.) high (2)
A pair of monumental two-handled porcelain vases by the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg, period of Nicholas I, 1844 Each of amphora form, on square ormolu sockle, the domed foot, rim and dividing bands gilt, with moulded foliate calyx and reeded foliate scroll handles of burnished and ciselé gilding, with broad borders of grisaille and ciselé gilt scrolls on white ground, the body of each painted with an Old Master painting, dated, inscribed and signed in Cyrillic, one depicing 'Departure for the Hunt' after P. Wouverman (lower left) and further inscribed in red in the inner rims of the body mai 1844 , the other with a Woodland road, after BOTH (lower left), both painted, signed and dated by P. Shchetinin 1844 (lower right), marked inside necks 53¾ in. (139 cm.) high (2)
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