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A Large Pair of Ormolu-Mounted Green Granite Vases
A Large Pair of Ormolu-Mounted Green Granite Vases
Dimensions: H: 25.5 in / 65 cm | Dia: 14.5 in / 37 cm
A Large Pair of Ormolu-Mounted Green Granite Vases
Possibly Russian
Constructed from green granite, probably Serdobol granite, the campana urns of impressive size and dressed with gilt bronze mounts, supported on beaded square plinths, each foot wrapped in a stiff-leaf ormolu border, the bottom of the vases with laurel leaf and acanthus leaf decoration , with a pair of large handles of stylised acanthus having angled corners, the body of each vase with a high-relief carved Vitruvian scroll inset with ormolu mounts below the rim decorated in a conforming manner with gilt bronze acanthus leaves.
Northern European, possibly Russian, second half of the 19th century
Serdobol granite, named after the city near Lake Ladoga in Northwestern Russia, is a prized green-grey stone quarried throughout the nineteenth century in the Russian Empire and was used extensively in St Peterburg's architecture. Alongside Schoksha porphyry and pink Rapavki granite, Serdobol granite was used for the pedestal of the Monument of Nicholas I, completed in 1859.
The use of green granite for objets d'art was first pioneered by the French Duc d'Aumont during the 1770s, after which it became a widespread fashion throughout Europe.
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