BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER II

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A Pair of Porcelain Vases and Covers
By the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, period of Alexander II
Each baluster form, on spreading circular foot rising to a band of stiff leaves, the magenta body with caryatid handles formed as maidens holding flowers and issuing garlands suspended from gilt floral rosettes, the gilt rim with a band of berried oak, the cover with leaf-and-berry calyx finial, marked under base with overglaze green factory mark
22 in. (55.9 cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

The present vases are related to a pair, modelled by Andrei Lapshin during the period of Alexander II, which are preserved in the Peterhof Museum Reserve (N.B. von Wolf (ed. T.N. Nosovich), Imperatorskii farforovyi zavod, 1744-1904, St. Petersburg, 2008, p. 537). Their neoclassical ornament also recalls works of the Paul I period, most notably vases with satyrs preserved in the Peterhof Museum Reserve and the Pavlovsk State Museum Reserve (N.B. Wolf, op. cit., pp. 160-161).

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