GMZ Tsarskoe Selo
"An early twentieth-century porcelain candy bowl by the Royal Copenhagen is purchase[d] by the Museum to replace a similar piece lost from the Alexander Palace.
Such a candy bowl with two swallows as handles stood among other decorative objects on a shelf of the corner sofa with a display cabinet in Empress Alexandra's Maple Drawing Room. It was not evacuated before the Nazi invasion of Russia in 1941 and vanished. According to pre-war inventory descriptions, the bowl was signed AP by Anna Pedersen, who was an animal sculptor and model designer at the Royal Porcelain Manufactory in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 1905.
The acquired bowl of 1905–22, purchased thanks to financial support from our Friends Society, bears the same signature. The painter's mark 102 on it belongs to M. Hansen, who worked at the Royal Copenhagen during 1897–1932. The oval-shaped bowl in pale-gray and white colours is decorated with underglaze polychrome painting typical for fine Danish porcelain of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The Danish candy bowl will be placed in the Maple Drawing Room after the restoration of Nicholas and Alexandra's rooms in the Alexander Palace is finished."
No comments:
Post a Comment