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URN-SHAPED VASE, ONE OF TWO

Creator(s): Imperial Porcelain Factory (Manufacturer) , Nikolai Krasovsky (Painter)

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.

Object name:
URN-SHAPED VASE, ONE OF TWO
Made from:
Porcelain -- ormolu
Made in:
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Date made:
c. 1860
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 / 1860 / [After a painting by Meyer] [In Cyrillic on the left]
Credit line:
Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973