A PORCELAIN TWO-HANDLED VASE, AND A CUP AND SAUCER THE VASE, BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1815; THE CUP AND SAUCER, BY THE MEISSEN FACTORY, GERMANY, MID-19TH CENTURY The two-handled vase, cylindrical, with two scroll handles shaped as cornucopia, centring a cameo portrait of Empress Elizaveta Alekseevna (1779-1826), the reverse painted with ciselé gilt Imperial crown, scepter and orb, apparently unmarked, incised with numerals ‘2/9 ’ under base ; the cup and saucer, painted with a satirical image of Napoleon dancing and inscribed in German ‘Dance Lessons of 1812’, marked under bases The vase, 3 7/8 in. (10 cm.) high Provenance Nina Zouboff (1929-2018).
A PORCELAIN TWO-HANDLED VASE, AND A CUP AND SAUCER THE VASE, BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1815; THE CUP AND SAUCER, BY THE MEISSEN FACTORY, GERMANY, MID-19TH CENTURY The two-handled vase, cylindrical, with two scroll handles shaped as cornucopia, centring a cameo portrait of Empress Elizaveta Alekseevna (1779-1826), the reverse painted with ciselé gilt Imperial crown, scepter and orb, apparently unmarked, incised with numerals ‘2/9 ’ under base ; the cup and saucer, painted with a satirical image of Napoleon dancing and inscribed in German ‘Dance Lessons of 1812’, marked under bases The vase, 3 7/8 in. (10 cm.) high Provenance Nina Zouboff (1929-2018).
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