A Russian Porcelain Vase, Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, period of Alexander I (1801-1825)

of baluster form with scrolling handles, with pierced neck and base, the body with continuous landscape of different varieties of flowers, all minutely depicted, with gilt bronze mounts and socle, apparently unmarked

overall good condition, some slight wear to gilt bronze base
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For a comparable vase, see N.B. von Wolf (ed. T.N. Nosovich), Imperatorskii farforovyi zavod, 1744-1904, St. Petersburg, 2003, p. 140.