LOT 343A
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AN EXTREMELY RARE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FLOWER ARRANGEMENT, RUSSIAN IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, PYOTR IVANOV, FIRST HALF OF 19TH CENTURY
the delicately modeled bisque porcelain flower bouquet featuring buttercups, carnations and other field flowers, on a powder-blue background, with a dome glass cover, dimensions not including frame: 29 x 23 cm (11 3/4 x 9 in.)
PROVENANCE
Acquired by the present owner at Christie’s New York
RELATED LITERATURE
Tamara Kudriavtseva, Russian Imperial Porcelain, St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2003 (A similar example by Ivanov, shaped as a table and given to the Emperor as a Christmas present in 1850, now in the Collection of the Hermitage Museum (Inv. MZI-663), is illustrated on page 144)
PROVENANCE
Acquired by the present owner at Christie’s New York
RELATED LITERATURE
Tamara Kudriavtseva, Russian Imperial Porcelain, St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2003 (A similar example by Ivanov, shaped as a table and given to the Emperor as a Christmas present in 1850, now in the Collection of the Hermitage Museum (Inv. MZI-663), is illustrated on page 144)
Estimate: $10,000 – $15,000
