'Morning': A rare Imperial Porcelain Vase, period of Nicholas II, dated 1900
the deep-blue ovoid body finely decorated with a pâte-sur-pâte figure of a nymph in diaphenous robe, modelled by August-Heinrich Timus, and painted by Nikolai Daladugin, with underglaze green IPM markheight: 26 cm. (10 ¼ in.)