A pair of porcelain vases from the Guriev Service, probably Imperial porcelain manufactory, early 19th century

of tapering form, the deep raspberry bodies decorated with gilt musical trophies within vine wreaths, with further vine leaf border, the shoulders encircled with a band of laurel leaves flanked with scroll handles terminating in rosettes, on circular socle and square base, apparently unmarked, unexamined without base

The Guriev Service was designed by the leading craftsmen in the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory including the gilder Bokur.  It was originally known as the Russian Service and was commissioned for the Winter Palace in St Petersburg.  In 1848 it was re-named after Count Dmitri Alexandrovich Guriev, Director of His Majesty's Cabinet during the reign of Alexander I who ordered the service.