A covered porcelain vase, Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, period of Alexander II (1855-1881)
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of baluster form, painted with a shoulder-length portrait of a beauty, a singular lock of curly hair elegantly draped across her shoulder, signed to lower right A. Mironov. 75(?) the reverse with a bouquet of flowers tied at the stems with a blue ribbon, in a gilt frame, reserved on a dark-blue ground enriched with strapwork and intricate floral motifs in Persian style, within bands of gilt pellets and floral wreaths on a lighter blue ground, the tapered neck, domed cover and foot similarly decorated, marked with green crowned cypher for Alexander II
height 21.5 in.; 54.6 cm
Aleksandr Mironov (1826 - 1898/99) started his career at the Imperial Porcelain Factory as an apprentice in 1838. He became assistant master in 1846, and finally in 1854, was appointed master of historical paintings.
During his decorated career as a painter for the Imperial Porcelain Factory, he presented his work at notable exhibitions including the world exhibition in Vienna in 1873 and was awarded several orders and medals, cementing his reputation as one of the best painters of figures on porcelain during the second half of the 19th century.
For two similar vases also decorated with female figures painted by Mironov, see Антология русского фарфора XVIII- начала XX века. Вазы Императорского фарфорового завода [Anthology of Russian Porcelain of the 18th-Early 20th Centuries: Vases of the Imperial Porcelain Factory 1855-1917], Moscow, 2014, pp.74-75.
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