Lot 235
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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED BISCUIT PORCELAIN BUST OF PAUL I
AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED BISCUIT PORCELAIN BUST OF PAUL I
AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED BISCUIT PORCELAIN BUST OF PAUL I
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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED BISCUIT PORCELAIN BUST OF PAUL I

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, AFTER THE MODEL BY AUGUST SPIESS, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1870S

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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED BISCUIT PORCELAIN BUST OF PAUL I
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, AFTER THE MODEL BY AUGUST SPIESS, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1870S
Realistically modelled, wearing a military uniform, on a column-shaped base decorated with floral swags and bands, on a gilt bronze base, apparently unmarked
20 ½ in. (52 cm.) high, including the base
Provenance
Mikhail Alexeyevich Sergeev (1888-1965), scientist and economist, one of the first commissars of the State Bank of the USSR.
Acquired from the above by the grandparents of the present owner.

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Lot Essay

The bust of Paul I by August Spiess was based on the portrait by Jacques-Dominique Rachette created in the 1790s, the same period when the bust of Catherine the Great was created. For the original bust by Rachette, see N.B. von Wolf (ed. V.V. Znamenov), Imperatorskii farforovyi zavod, 1744-1904, St Petersburg, 2008, p. 142.

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