Details
Each of tapering cylindrical form, in the chinoiserie style, the cobalt blue body with four vertical reserves, finely painted with exotic birds and bouquets of flowers, decorated with a ginkgo-leaf band in red and gold, marked under base with blue underglaze factory marks; one vase with a label under base with initials 'O.N.' for Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna
1234 in. (32.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Romanova (1822-1892).
Anonymous sale; Hermann Historica, Munich, 10 October 2008, lot 1129.
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Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna (1822-1892) married Crown Prince Charles of Württemberg (1823-1891) in July 1846 at Peterhof Palace, outside of St Petersburg. The couple lived mostly in Villa Berg in Stuttgart and in Kloster Hofen. After the death of his father in June 1864, Charles acceded the throne and became the third King of Württemberg.

Emperor Nicholas I supplied his three daughters with lavish dowries. It is possible that these vases were a gift from Nicholas I to his daughter on the occasion of her marraige to Crown Prince Charles of Württemberg.

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