A pair of porcelain vases, Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St Petersburg, period of Nicolas I (1825-1855)

of baluster form with scroll handles, painted with views of Palace Square and Nevsky Prospekt, the backs with birds, within applied trailing borders of polychrome fruit and flowers, the sides with ciselé gilt bouquets, with blue underglaze cypher of Nicholas I, one gilt-inscribed 1.2.0.

There are losses to the flowers, as expected. One flower embedded with residue.
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