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A RUSSIAN IMPERIAL PORCELAIN VASE WITH IMAGE OF ALEXANDER COLUMN, RUSSIAN IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, 1840-1855
the urn-shaped vase with a hand-painted detailed view of the then newly erected Alexander Column based on L. J. Arnould`s engraving, the opposite side with of the carmine red body with a gilt cisele image of a lyre and symbols of harvest, flanked by two gilded handles in joined to the body by two bearded masks at each base, the rim and base fully gilded, height: 26.4 cm (10 3/5 in.), blue underglazed imperial cypher of Nicholas I on base