LARGE COVERED VASE IN URAL PINK GRANITE AND GILT BRONZE

FROM THE COLLECTION OF COUNT ALEXANDER SERGEYEVICH STROGANOV IN SAINT PETERSBURG

Saint Petersburg, early 19th century, circa 1805.

Ural pink granite, carved at the Imperial Lapidary Manufactory in Yekaterinburg,

Ural, Western Siberia.

Chiselled and gilt bronze: Saint Petersburg Imperial Bronze Foundry

H. 56 cm. (22 in.).

Provenance: collection of Count Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov (1733-1811), at the Stroganov Palace in Saint Petersbourg, then descendants; Sammlung Stroganoff, Leningrad, auction of the Stroganov collection, in Berlin, Rudolph Lepke’s Kunst-Auctions-Haus, 13^th May 1931, lot n° 14; anonymous auction in Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Beaussant Lefèvre auction house, 25^th April 2003, lot n° 133; Hubert Guerrand-Hermès collection; Galerie Steinitz collection in Paris.

Literature on the Stroganov collection: Louis Réau, “L’art français du XVIII^e siècle dans la collection Stroganov”, Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire de l’Art Français, 1931, fasc. 1, p. 62-68; Penelope Hunter-Stiebel, Stroganoff, the palace and collections of a Russian noble family, New York, 2000; I. Sychev, Russian Bronze, Moscow, 2003.

Exhibition on the Stroganov collection: Les Stroganoff, une dynastie de mécènes, catalogue of the exhibition held at the Musée Carnavalet, Paris, from 8^th March to 2^nd June 2002.

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