A PAIR OF KORZEC PORCELAIN TWO-HANDLED VASES
A PAIR OF KORZEC PORCELAIN TWO-HANDLED VASES

CIRCA 1820, IRON-RED TRIANGLE, EYE AND SCRIPT MARK, GILT FLOWER MARK, IMPRESSED AND SCRIPT NUMERALS

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A PAIR OF KORZEC PORCELAIN TWO-HANDLED VASES
CIRCA 1820, IRON-RED TRIANGLE, EYE AND SCRIPT MARK, GILT FLOWER MARK, IMPRESSED AND SCRIPT NUMERALS
Each decorated with trophies and gilt panels each tooled with a lyre reserved against a lilac-ground band within gilt dot and trelliswork borders, the foliate scroll and scale-ground handles with anthemion terminals
13 in. (33 cm.) high

Lot Essay

A porcelain manufactory was established at Korzec (today Korets, Ukraine) around 1784 by Prince Józef Klemens Czartoryski (1740–1810), where there was a large deposit of china-clay. The factory was destroyed by fire in the late 1790s and was rebuilt in the very early years of the 19th century when a chemist from Sèvres was hired to oversee the factory. The factory's existence was so short-lived, and often interrupted by the Napoleonic Wars, that its production was limited and its wares appear only rarely on the market. It closed around 1831.

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