EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF RUSSIAN ORMOLU INCENSE-BURNERS
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Each with an anthemion-cast domed lid with flame finial, supported by three winged female herms with Egyptian headdress, joined by a circular platform centred with a classical urn, above a concave-sided tripod base, finials replaced
21½ in. (54.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Bought by the present owner in Paris in the 1970s

Literature

E. Ducamp, The Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg, Paris, 1994, p. 218 (illustrated in the Turquoise Drawing Room in the Frist Reserve Apartment).

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Lot Essay

Closely related athéniennes are illustrated in an 1866 watercolour by Eduard Petrovich Hau (d. 1887) of 'The Turquoise Drawing Room' in the First Reserve Apartment of the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, and subsequently sold Christie's, London, 5 July 2013, lot 71 (£37,500 including premium).

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