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A PAIR OF FINE TWO-HANDLED PORCELAIN VASES
Lot 338 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN COLLECTION

A PAIR OF FINE TWO-HANDLED PORCELAIN VASES

BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, 1820-1830S

Closed6 June 2016

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A PAIR OF FINE TWO-HANDLED PORCELAIN VASES
BY THE GARDNER PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, 1820-1830S
Each of amphora form, the bodies painted with Dutch genre scenes on one side, and Italian landscapes on the reverse, both within gilt ciselé borders, the lower part of the body with moulded palmette motives, the flared neck with gilt ciselé foliage, the everted rim moulded with acanthus leaves, the body flanked by two upswept rosette-capped scrolling handles, on spreading circular foot on a square base, one marked with impressed factory mark and numeral '2' under base, the other inscribed with numeral '5'
22 in. (56 cm.) high, including plinth

Specialist note

Founded in 1766 with the permission of Catherine the Great, the Gardner Factory in Verbilki, Moscow region, was one of the first porcelain factories in Russia, together with the Imperial Porcelain Factory founded two decades earlier. The present pair of vases is a wonderful example of the early 19th century Gardner Factory production.

Many of the vases produced at this time were decorated with copies of Old Master and landscape paintings from Russian museums or with prints. Consistent with the European tradition of using academic paintings as porcelain design sources, the middle section of the vase was treated by factory artists as a canvas.

A comparable pair of vases by the Gardner Porcelain Factory depicting the same Dutch genre scenes is part of the collection of the State Peterhof Museum, St Petersburg; see M. Korablev, M. Sokolenko, Antologiia Russkogo Farfora XVIII-nachala XX veka, vol. 5, part 1, Moscow, 2014, pp. 100-105.