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Property from the Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, sold to benefit the Acquisitions Fund
A PAIR OF PARCEL-GILT PAINTED VASES
BY THE POPOV FACTORY, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1820-1830,
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A PAIR OF PARCEL-GILT PAINTED VASES
BY THE POPOV FACTORY, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1820-1830,
Each shaped as an amphora, the body painted with Russian landscapes, with stylized parcel-gilt upright handles with open fans and small rosettes, a small face below each handle, on black square bases, marked under bases with blue underglaze mark
Each: 13¼ in. (34 cm.) high (2)
BY THE POPOV FACTORY, ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1820-1830,
Each shaped as an amphora, the body painted with Russian landscapes, with stylized parcel-gilt upright handles with open fans and small rosettes, a small face below each handle, on black square bases, marked under bases with blue underglaze mark
Each: 13¼ in. (34 cm.) high (2)
Literature
For a similar shape see V.A. Popov, Russian Porcelain, Private Factories, Leningrad, 1980, plate 53.