A PORCELAIN CUP AND SAUCER

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A PORCELAIN CUP AND SAUCER
by the Gardner Factory, early 19th Century

The cylindrical cup decorated with a portrait medallion of young Zhukovskii wearing a green coat, within gilt ciselé rim, gilt interior, the saucer with stylised symbols of poetry and the Arts, on white ground within a gilt rim - the cup 3¾in. (9.5cm.) high (2)

来源

Arafelov collection

展览

Sèvres, Musée céramique de Sèvres, Exposition de céramiques russes (1929) no.207, illus.

拍品专文

Vasilii Andreevich Zhukovskii (1738-1835) was a famous Russian romantic poet, mentor and close friend of Alexander Pushkin and personal tutor of the future Tsar Alexander II, who also translated Byron into Russian.