A PAIR OF MOSCOW PORCELAIN 'EMPIRE' GILT VASES, Nasonoff factory at Spassk, the twohandled amphora vases decorated with frontal medallions depicting; one with a recumbent lady holding a cornucopia on a dark cloud, the other with a putto bestriding an eagle and holding a thunderbolt upon dark clouds, the reverse with a blue-ground reserved with a gilt carriage ridden by a putto and drawn by butterflies, the other with a young mother spinning wool and her babyboy surrounded with dandelions and garlands, the handles modelled as maidenheads, on square pedestal base, marked in cyrillic, before 1813
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A PAIR OF MOSCOW PORCELAIN 'EMPIRE' GILT VASES, Nasonoff factory at Spassk, the twohandled amphora vases decorated with frontal medallions depicting; one with a recumbent lady holding a cornucopia on a dark cloud, the other with a putto bestriding an eagle and holding a thunderbolt upon dark clouds, the reverse with a blue-ground reserved with a gilt carriage ridden by a putto and drawn by butterflies, the other with a young mother spinning wool and her babyboy surrounded with dandelions and garlands, the handles modelled as maidenheads, on square pedestal base, marked in cyrillic, before 1813
circa 27 cm high
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Lot Essay
The Nasonoff factory was sold to Kiriakoff in 1813, some years later it was closed.