Details
Urn form, the bodies painted with gilt classical figures in a landscape against a deep blue ground, on a waisted socle and square plinth, with upswung scrolled acanthus handles, marked under bases with blue underglaze factory mark
1238 in. (31.4 cm.) high
Provenance
Raymond Piper Imperial Russian Porcelain Collection; Jackson's International Auctioneers and Appraisers, Cedar Falls, Iowa, 19 November 2024, lot 8.
Literature
Curtis L. Carter, At The Tsars Table, Russian Imperial Porcelain from the Raymond F. Piper Collection, Milwaukee, 2001, p. 5, plate 1.
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For a pair of comparable vases in Etruscan style from the period of Catherine the Great in the collection of the Pavlovsk Museum, see Porcelain: The Imperial Porcelain Factory Late 18th - Early 20th century, Vol. VII, State Pavlovsk Museum, St. Petersburg, 2009, p. 44.

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