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LARGE PORCELAIN VASE FROM THE IMPERIAL MANUFACTORY OF SAINT-…
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LARGE PORCELAIN VASE FROM THE IMPERIAL MANUFACTORY OF SAINT-…
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Estimate €40,000 - €60,000
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Description
LARGE PORCELAIN VASE FROM THE IMPERIAL MANUFACTORY OF SAINT-PETERSBURG WITH NORDIC LANDSCAPE DECORATION (1914)
Porcelain vase in the shape of a truncated cone with polychrome decoration depicting a wooded northern landscape in summer on a pale blue shaded background. Good condition, restorations.
Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St Petersburg, 1914.
Mark on the reverse in green stencil with the cipher of Tsar Nicholas II dated 1914.
H. 64 cm.
Literature
"At The Tsars Table, Russian Imperial Porcelain from the Raymond F. Piper Collection", Marquette University Press, 2001, 50-page exhibition catalogue, illustrated on page 37, plate 21.
History
Adopted by the Imperial Russian Porcelain Manufactory in the nineteenth century after the Danish school, and today best known through the works of Royal Copenhagen, the technique of underglaze painting on porcelain vases reached its apogee at the St Petersburg Imperial Manufactory between 1900 and 1916. The dominant influence of Symbolist aesthetics is reflected in a fascinating series of hand-painted porcelain vases, such as the present lot, decorated with landscapes and floral compositions that were the jewels in the manufactory's crown at the time. In the 1910s, the beauty of the landscapes of northern Russia became the central theme of works by artists from the manufactory such as A. Lapshin, G. Zimin, A. Bolshakov, N. Daladugin and V. Klenovskaya. The subtle nuances of the ephemeral seasonal landscapes and pale northern skies, barely tinged with the shadows of dusk, as well as the delicate shapes of the boreal vegetation, are in perfect harmony with the very nature of the underglaze technique, free from saturated colours and sharp contrasts. Each porcelain decoration was unique, drawing its inspiration from the immaculate landscapes of Finland, Karelia and the environs of St Petersburg, as sketched by the artists at the manufactory. Among the vases created by the manufactory, with their simple and varied forms, are the remarkable "Deep River" vase from the Anitchkov Palace, 1910 (Bonhams sale, 28 November 2018, lot 101a), "Birch Stems", 1913 (Hermitage Museum), "Landscape Vase", 1914 (State Historical Museum) and a vase depicting a lake (Peterhof Museum and State Reserve, Imperial Porcelain Manufactory 1744-1904, Saint Petersburg, 2008, p. 633).
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