A Russian Porcelain Jardinière with Gilt Bronze Mounts, Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, 1872

with four porcelain panels; the two curved panels on the sides finely painted with allegories of the harvest, music and love, signed K. Krasovskii and dated 1872; the flat side panels with classical figures and putti, signed A. Mironov after Meirer and dated 1872; with gilt bronze mounts resting on raised dolphin heads and with columns, masks, and flowering swags, with liner

bright colors, crisp chasing to the gilt bronze, and excellent condition; the original armature present beneath the white-painted tin liner
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Alexander Mironov (1826-1898/99) and Konstantin Krasovskii (1834-1906), among the most talented figure and flower painters on porcelain in nineteenth-century Russia, both came from families whose members worked at the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory. The two collaborated on numerous projects destined for diplomatic gifts or international expositions. (See N.S. Petrova, Farfor i roza, St. Petersburg, 2010, pp. 13-15).  A nearly identical jardinière dated 1871 was sold at Sotheby's London, 18 November 1999, lot 486, illustrated.