Jan 30, 2019 10:00 EST
English & Continental Furniture / Old Masters/Russian Works of Art
147
Russian Porcelain Potpourri Vase and Cover
Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, period of Alexander II (1855-1881)
After a model by August Spiess, ovoid, on a raised circular foot, the domed cover with rose-form finial, the body painted with a floral bouquet on one side and a portrait of a man in eighteenth-century dress on the other, beneath a pierced upper section and above a tied foliate wreath, the sides with two foliate handles above a satyr mask. Height 11 3/8 inches (28.9 cm).
Literature:
E. Khmelnitskaya, August Spiess and the Imperial Porcelain Factory: A Life Dedicated to Porcelain, Moscow (2012), pp. 94-98.
Sold for $4,375
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000
Includes Buyer's Premium
Russian Porcelain Potpourri Vase and Cover
Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, period of Alexander II (1855-1881)
After a model by August Spiess, ovoid, on a raised circular foot, the domed cover with rose-form finial, the body painted with a floral bouquet on one side and a portrait of a man in eighteenth-century dress on the other, beneath a pierced upper section and above a tied foliate wreath, the sides with two foliate handles above a satyr mask. Height 11 3/8 inches (28.9 cm).
Literature:
E. Khmelnitskaya, August Spiess and the Imperial Porcelain Factory: A Life Dedicated to Porcelain, Moscow (2012), pp. 94-98.
Marks on both vases are under the glaze; see literature reference for other examples by the manufactory; chips to edges of rose-from finial; areas of restoration to cover.
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Auction: English & Continental Furniture / Old Masters/Russian Works of Art, Jan 30, 2019
