A PAIR OF RARE AND LARGE TWO-HANDLED PORCELAIN VASES
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS I, 1840
A PAIR OF RARE AND LARGE TWO-HANDLED PORCELAIN VASES BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS I, 1840 Each of campana form, the body of one finely painted with Boy Blowing Soap Bubbles after Alonso Miguel de Tobar, signed in Cyrillic ‘V. Elashevskoi.’ and dated ‘1840’ (lower right) and ‘TÔBAR.’ (lower left), the body of the other vase painted with Portrait of a Young Woman as Granida after Paulus Moreelse signed ‘A: nesterov.’ and dated ‘1840’ (lower right) and ‘Morelse’ (lower left), within ciselé gilt foliate work, the back ciselé gilt with caduceus mounted with a ribbon-tied laurel wreath and suspending ribbon-tied acanthus and fruit festoons, within white borders, with everted gilt rim, and flanked by reeded handles capped with acanthus, the base moulded with acanthus and flower-heads, with gadrooned foot and on a square ormolu plinth, each marked inside the rim with overglaze and underglaze factory marks; one dated ‘1840’ and further inscribed with a Cyrillic letter and numerals ‘n.2.4.’; one also inscribed with Cyrillic initials ‘F:G:’ 26¼ in. (67 cm.) high
A PAIR OF RARE AND LARGE TWO-HANDLED PORCELAIN VASES
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS I, 1840
A PAIR OF RARE AND LARGE TWO-HANDLED PORCELAIN VASES BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS I, 1840 Each of campana form, the body of one finely painted with Boy Blowing Soap Bubbles after Alonso Miguel de Tobar, signed in Cyrillic ‘V. Elashevskoi.’ and dated ‘1840’ (lower right) and ‘TÔBAR.’ (lower left), the body of the other vase painted with Portrait of a Young Woman as Granida after Paulus Moreelse signed ‘A: nesterov.’ and dated ‘1840’ (lower right) and ‘Morelse’ (lower left), within ciselé gilt foliate work, the back ciselé gilt with caduceus mounted with a ribbon-tied laurel wreath and suspending ribbon-tied acanthus and fruit festoons, within white borders, with everted gilt rim, and flanked by reeded handles capped with acanthus, the base moulded with acanthus and flower-heads, with gadrooned foot and on a square ormolu plinth, each marked inside the rim with overglaze and underglaze factory marks; one dated ‘1840’ and further inscribed with a Cyrillic letter and numerals ‘n.2.4.’; one also inscribed with Cyrillic initials ‘F:G:’ 26¼ in. (67 cm.) high
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