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BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER II (1855-1881)
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A RARE PAIR OF TWO-HANDLED MILITARY PORCELAIN VASES
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER II (1855-1881)
Each of amphora form, with spreading circular foot on square base, one vase painted with the standard bearer and a drum major of the Preobrazhenskii Regiment, the other with the officers of the Life Guard Moskovskii Regiment, both within gilt borders with rosettes at corners, the white reeded body with a gilt band of acanthus, the flared neck with gilt ciselé laurel band on gold ground, flanked by two rosette-capped scrolling handles decorated with ram-heads, each marked under base with underglaze green factory mark
12¼ in. (31 cm.) high
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER II (1855-1881)
Each of amphora form, with spreading circular foot on square base, one vase painted with the standard bearer and a drum major of the Preobrazhenskii Regiment, the other with the officers of the Life Guard Moskovskii Regiment, both within gilt borders with rosettes at corners, the white reeded body with a gilt band of acanthus, the flared neck with gilt ciselé laurel band on gold ground, flanked by two rosette-capped scrolling handles decorated with ram-heads, each marked under base with underglaze green factory mark
12¼ in. (31 cm.) high
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