A PAIR OF RUSSIAN RED AND GREEN KORGON PORPHYRY TAZZE CIRCA 1860, BY THE KOLYVAN IMPERIAL LAPIDARY WORKS

These tazze, of impressive scale, are made in two colours of Korgon porphyry, first found in 1786, in the Kolyvan-Voskresenk region, in the surroundings of the Altai Mountains. The design seems to be from the 1860’s and a drawing from the Imperial State Archive shows a related form to the present lot and is inscribed with the date of when it was sent to production (1870). A pair of identical design, made entirely of Kalgan jasper and of smaller scale (36cm), was with Kugel Antiquaires (published Kugel, J., Treasures of the Czars, Russia & Europe from Peter the Great to Nicholas I, 1998, n.294).