A Porcelain Cup and Cover on a Figural Stand

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS II, DATED 1898

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A Porcelain Cup and Cover on a Figural Stand
By the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, period of Nicholas II, dated 1898
The two-handled cup on dark blue ground, the borders with gilt ciselé berries and foliage interspersed with rosettes in circular and diamond lozenges within reeding, the body with further beaded scroll border, the gilt ciselé handles formed as acanthus leaves, the circular foot on gilt cislelé figural pedestal realistically modelled as a kneeling female figure in sarafan and kokoshnik holding drapery, the circular base with white glazed border, marked under base with underglaze green factory mark and incised 2
9½ in. (24.2 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

With Galerie Popoff, Paris, 1970s.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

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Ksenia Apukhtina

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Descriptif du lot

The present lot is based on a model by Stepan Pimenov (1784-1833), master modeller at the Imperial Porcelain Factory during the reign of Alexander I. The model was conceived by Pimenov for the Guriev Service (1809-1816). See N.B. von Wolf (ed. T.N. Nosovich), Imperatorskii farforovyi zavod, 1744-1904, St Petersburg, 2008, p. 225.

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