BUST OF CATHERINE II
Creator(s): Imperial Porcelain Factory (Manufacturer) , August Spiess (Designer) , Jacques-Dominique Rachette (After) , Fedot Ivanovich Shubin (After)
On view in: French Drawing Room
About this object
This glazed biscuit bust of Empress Catherine II is after a late 1700s biscuit model by Jacques-Dominique Rachette (1744-1809) based on a marble original by Fedot Ivanovich Shubin (1740-1805). She looks almost forward, only slightly to the left. Her hair is dressed high and with curls falling over each shoulder. She wears a tiara and a wreath of laurel in her hair. Only the upper part of her dress is represented. This bust is fixed to a circular base, which in turn rests on a truncated column. The column is in unglazed biscuit. About the base is a garland of oak leaves in gold. On the front of the column is a medallion with a frame of leaves and ribbons, in gold. In the center of this is a porcelain plaque in white with the monogram of the Empress in roses of natural colors.
- Object name:
- BUST OF CATHERINE II
- Made from:
- Porcelain
- Made in:
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Date made:
- after 1872
- Size:
- H. 25 in.
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 25.358
- Class:
- CERAMICS
- Signature marks:
- MARK SM in Cyrillic for Sergei Morozov [On bust] MARK Crowned AII in green [On stand underneath] MONOGRAM EII [On stand, in medaillion]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973