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