A LARGE PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A BACCHANTE
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER II, CIRCA 1867
After the figure by August Spiess, modelled as a nude bacchante, holding a bunch of grapes in her right hand and a wine glass in her left hand, with a fur-lined mantle, resting on a pillar, with a tree-trunk behind, on a circular naturalistic base, also on a large lilac reeded plinth, moulded with gilt ribbons and grapes, marked under base of the plinth with green printed factory mark, also signed in Russian and dated ‘A. Spiess 1867’ on the base
23¼ in. (58 cm.) high, including plinth
A LARGE PORCELAIN FIGURE OF A BACCHANTE
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER II, CIRCA 1867
After the figure by August Spiess, modelled as a nude bacchante, holding a bunch of grapes in her right hand and a wine glass in her left hand, with a fur-lined mantle, resting on a pillar, with a tree-trunk behind, on a circular naturalistic base, also on a large lilac reeded plinth, moulded with gilt ribbons and grapes, marked under base of the plinth with green printed factory mark, also signed in Russian and dated ‘A. Spiess 1867’ on the base
23¼ in. (58 cm.) high, including plinth
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