Potpourri Vase with Classical Figures
It is believed that Catherine the Great gave this gold vase to her lover, Count Grigorii Grigorevich Orlov. Together with his brothers, the count organized a coup that placed Catherine on the Russian throne in 1762. The two putti on the lid support a shield bearing the count's...
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Grigory Grigorievich Orlov (1734-1783), St. Petersburg, 1768, by commission, or Catherine the Great (1729-1796), St. Petersburg, 1768, by commission; Grigory Grigorievich Orlov, St. Petersburg [date of acquisition unknown], by gift; Orlov-Davidoff Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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