A monumental Russian gilt-bronze-mounted porcelain vase
Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg,
The bronze attributed to the Felix Chopin workshop
Period of Nicholas I (1825-1855)
The central band painted with luxurious floral garlands including rose, lily, carnation, dahlia, narcissus, viburnum, gladiola, coreopsis, viola, aster, polyantha, morning glories, campanula, nasturtium, stock and delphinium between lilac and gilt borders, enclosed by exuberant acanthus S-scrolls beneath a pierced corona, supported on a shaped plinth inset with oval plaques and applied with satyr masks, underglaze blue imperial cipher on upper rim, all raised on a later separate veined black marble plinth.
Greatest width over handles 32in (81.5cm); greatest height 32in (81.5cm); greatest diameter of corona 23 1/2in (59.5cm); dimensions of marble plinth 8 x 25 1/4 x 25 1/4in (20.5 x 64 x 64cm)