Lot 187
A VERY FINE HAND PAINTED RUSSIAN PORCELAIN CUP AND SAUCER, IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST. PETERSBURG, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY. Of tapering cylindrical form with a flaring rim and on a spreading foot, the front painted with a Neoclassical scene of a woman holding a quiver of arrows in a Roman interior, probably Venus with cupid's arrows. Framed in a gilt, leaf-tipped decorated border, the backside with gilt leaf tips, swags, bell flowers and shell forms on a grey mottled ground with pink borders, and the molded foliate scroll handle with mask terminal and with gilt interior sides. The white ground circular saucer decorated with a gilt flower head in the sunken cavetto, surrounded by gilt bands and gilt decoration on a pink ground and further out, gilt flower tip and swags against a grey ground with pink border decorated with gilt stars and flower heads, and with gilt rim. The underside of cup with faint inscribed underglaze Cyrillic P and number 5, the underside of saucer with trace over glaze red inventory numbers and indistinguishable underglaze incised marks. The cup height 4.5 inches (11.5 cm), the saucer diameter 6.7 inches (7 cm).
Estimate:  $3,000 - 5,000   € 2,100 - 3,500

Price Realized: $7,500.00

For a similar example with identical modeled scroll handle with terminal mask, see Christies auction of October 12, 2009, lot 490, being an Imperial Porcelain Factory cup and saucer.