Baluster Vase depicting a Crane and Flowering Branches, 1911

St. Petersburg, Imperial Porcelain Factory
Sketch and painting: E. Gagen-Torn
Porcelain, underglaze polychrome painting
Underglaze green mark, stencilled monogram N II 1911 beneath a crown.
42.6 x 16.7 cm

Elena Gagen-Torn studied at the Technical Drawing School of Baron Stieglitz in the early 1900s. In about 1910 she went to work as a painter at the Imperial Porcelain Factory, specializing in underglaze painting on porcelain. From the Winter Palace Collection.