ENGLAND, 19TH CENTURY

Details

A two-handled porcelain vase
England, 19th Century
The inverted bell-shaped vase on square sockle, gilt and decorated with a white ground floral motif around the base, a painted foliate border to the circular foot and calyx, each side of the body printed and painted with a scene, one side with images of 'Ural Cossacks with their Ataman D.M. Borodin', after Hess, the other of 'Returning thanks to Almighty God', the scroll handles with mask terminals, apparently unmarked
7½ in. (19 cm.) high

Provenance

The Lewinson collection; Phillips, London, 8th April 1998, lot 398.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The first scene is Carl Adolph Heinrich Hess (1769-1849): Ural Cossacks with their Ataman D.M. Borodin during the Suvorov Swiss Campaign in 1790, Christie's, New York, 21 October 2003, lot 87.

The reverse depicts 'Returning thanks to Almighty God' after the Battle at Leipzig 1813.

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