A PAIR OF PORCELAIN VASES
Lot 348

A PAIR OF PORCELAIN VASES

BY THE BATENIN PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1820

Closed4 June 2018

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GBP 13,750

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A PAIR OF PORCELAIN VASES
BY THE BATENIN PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1820
Each of amphora form, the body gilt and painted with mythological scenes en grisaille on both sides, depicting Cupid and Psyche, Venus and Adonis, Cupid and Venus, within geometric borders, with swan-shaped handles, on gilt square foot, both marked under bases with impressed factory marks
13¾ in. (35 cm.) high

Specialist note

For comparable vases with swan-shaped handles, see Exhibition catalogue, The State Russian Museum: Porcelain of St Petersburg Private Factories, St Petersburg, 2008, p. 25, no. 21.