Lot Essay
Cf. a vase of similar form with different handles, N. B. Wolf, The Imperial Porcelain Factory 1744-1904, p. 158, fig. 240
RUSSIAN PORCELAIN
A ST. PETERSBURG GOLD AND BRONZED GROUND URN-SHAPED VASE with short flared neck, the richly gilt reeded double-scroll handles moulded with foliage and terminating in anthemion, the body painted with a fisherman holding a large jug and a length of rope talking to a woman and child on the shore before sailing boats at sunset within a rectangular cartouche, the bronzed reverse with gilt and white scrolling foliage, paterae and palmettes, the lower part with radiating gilt and bronzed acanthus leaves on a circular spreading foot with radiating foliage on an ormolu square base, the shoulder and stem with an ormolu collar, signed V. Stoletov, 1836 (one handle with minor repair at join, very minor chipping to acanthus leaves), crowned cyrillic monogram for Alexander I in blue, 1836
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A ST. PETERSBURG GOLD AND BRONZED GROUND URN-SHAPED VASE with short flared neck, the richly gilt reeded double-scroll handles moulded with foliage and terminating in anthemion, the body painted with a fisherman holding a large jug and a length of rope talking to a woman and child on the shore before sailing boats at sunset within a rectangular cartouche, the bronzed reverse with gilt and white scrolling foliage, paterae and palmettes, the lower part with radiating gilt and bronzed acanthus leaves on a circular spreading foot with radiating foliage on an ormolu square base, the shoulder and stem with an ormolu collar, signed V. Stoletov, 1836 (one handle with minor repair at join, very minor chipping to acanthus leaves), crowned cyrillic monogram for Alexander I in blue, 1836
69cm. high
69cm. high
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