A Russian Porcelain Covered Ice Cup from the Service of the Order of St. Vladimir Gardner Factory, Verbilki, Period of Catherine II (1762-1796), circa 1783-1785 4-3/8 x 3-3/8 x 2-1/2 inches (11.1 x 8.6 x 6.3 cm) PROVENANCE: John Atzbach Antiques, Bellevue, Washington; The Kathleen Durdin Collection of Russian Decorative Arts, Tampa, Florida. ILLUSTRATED: Exhibition Catalogue: The Tsar's Cabinet: Two Hundred Years of Russian Decorative Arts under the Romanovs International Arts and Artists, Washington, D.C.: 2011, p. 33, illus. 84. EXHIBITED: George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, CANADA, October 13, 2011 – January, 8, 2012; The Sonoma County Museum, Sonoma, CA., February 24, 2012 – May 27, 2012; Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL., June 23, 2012 – September 8, 2012; Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton, CANADA, October 6, 2012 – January 2, 2013; Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL., January 26, 2013 – April 27, 2013; Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana, CA., June 15, 2013 – September 8, 2013; North Carolina Museum of History, Raleigh, NC., October 5, 2013 – March 5, 2014; Museum of Russian Icons, Clinton, MA March 29, 2014 – May 25, 2014; Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL., October 11, 2015 – January 3, 2016; Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA., January 22, 2016 – April 17, 2016; Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA., September 30, 2016 – January 6, 2017. Property from the Kathleen Durdin Collection HID12401132022 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved