A PAIR OF RUSSIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MALACHITE VASES

ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1800

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A PAIR OF RUSSIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MALACHITE VASES
ST. PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1800
Each with applied anthemia and flanked by putto caryatid and griffin-formed handles, the malachite relaid with a later composition and metal core, possibly originally conceived with patinated bronze bodies
21¼ in. (54 cm.) high (2)

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These impressive vases, with their delicate attenuated putto caryatid handles, reflect the influence in early 19th century St. Petersburg of Parisian bronziers such as Claude Galle, who produced ewers and vases with similar caryatid handles, including examples at Pavlovsk (illustrated in E. Ducamp ed., Pavlovsk The Collections, Paris, 1993, p. 179).