URN-SHAPED VASE, ONE OF TWO

Made by: Imperial Porcelain Factory

On view in: Pavilion

About this object

Bases are gilt bronze. The vases are in several pieces of porcelain, (1) the pedestal leg joined to the (2) main body in an ormolu ring and (3) the two handles. The background is painted light gray with details, the handles and rim in gold. On the back of each is a frieze in grisaille of bacchantes and other figures in the Pompeian manner. On the front of each is a landscape, .1 a seashore, .2 a mountain lake.

Category:

ceramics

Object name:

URN-SHAPED VASE, ONE OF TWO

Made from:

Porcelain -- ormolu

Made in:

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Date made:

19th c.

Size:

71.8 x 47 cm (28 1/4 x 18 1/2 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

25.349.1

Class:

CERAMICS

Signature marks:

INSCRIPTION Signed on the right in Russian, N. Krasovsky

Credit line:

Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973