A PAIR OF RUSSIAN ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE INCENSE-BURNERS

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF RUSSIAN ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE INCENSE-BURNERS
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Each with an anthemion-cast domed lid with star-studded ball finial, supported by three winged female herms with Egyptian headdress, joined by a circular platform with classical urn, above a concave-sided tripod base, one with circular inventory metal plaque reading 'N.3', each tripod base incised correspondingly, each with paper label to underside inscribed in Cyrillic for 'Z.D./Pol.Glav./Kom.50.Oct.No.678', each originally with dish now lacking
22 in. (56 cm.) high; 8¾ in. (22 cm.) diameter, overall (2)

Provenance

Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, in the Turquoise Drawing Room in 1866.

Literature

E. Ducamp, The Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg, Paris, 1994, p.218 (illustrated in the Turquoise Drawing Room in the First Reserve Apartment).

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Lot Essay

These gueridons are illustrated in an 1866 watercolour by Eduard Petrovich Hau (d. 1887) of 'The Turquoise Drawing Room' in the First Reserve Apartment of the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg. The elegant barrel-vaulted room was part of a suite of rooms of Maximilian of Leuchtenberg, and an ante chamber to the 'Large Drawing Room'. The fashion for capturing views of interiors of the imperial palaces was at its height in the early 19th century. The watercolours depicting the interiors of the New Hermitage and Winter Palace were initiated by Tsar Nicholas I but not executed until the reign of his son, Alexander II.

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