porcelain, cover and vase with ultramarine body, cover with pinecone finial, acanthus leaf wreath and fluted rim, strips and diagonal bands to upper and lower image edge, lower portion with large acanthus leaf frieze, square plinth with palmettes frieze, baluster encompassed by polychrome-painted lake landscape, smoke rising from Vesuvius, the Bay of Naples, sailing boats, fishing boats and bathers, the Certosa di San Martino and an idealised view of Roman ruins, peasants, shepherds, sheep, mules and cows, height 108 cm, upper strip a little loose, St. Petersburg, overglaze blue mark to underside of foot for Tsar Nicholas I, 1825–1855 with blue digits 2.4.% (Ru)

Starting price € 20.000,- / US$ 23.500,- no reserve

Lit. cf.: Marilena Mosco e Edit Revai, exh. cat. Museo degli Argenti, Firenze 1997, holding of the Museo delle Porcellane Palazzo Pitti, Firenze, p. 50, ill. 10; views from the ‘Voyage Pittoresque ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile’, Paris 1781;
cf.: Russisches Porzellan 250 Jahre der Geschichte, Moscow 1995, ill. 73, Cachepot, Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg, overglaze blue mark of Tsar Nicholas I, circa 1830, State Museum of Ceramics at Kuskovo, published for the first time;
ill. 77, Kratervase with dem Porträt des russischen Thronfolgers Alexander, overglaze blue mark circa 1840, State Museum-reserve at Tsaritsyno, Published for the first time;
ill. 80, military plate, overglaze blue mark for Tsar Nicholas I, dated 1829, State History Museum;
ills 85, 86, 87, ditto circa 1830;