Pair of vases, ca. 1795–1800, Russian, Archangelsk, Walrus and elephant ivory, 8 5/8 × 3 × 3 in. (21.9 × 7.6 × 7.6 cm), Natural Substances-Ivory, Nikolai Stepanovich Vereshchagin (ca. 1795–1813), The art of bone-carving in Russia is inseparably linked with the remote northern whaling city of Arkhangel'sk. Lack of academic training and his humble position in a customs office were not impediments to the most widely recognized Arkhangel'sk bone carver, Nikolai Stepanovich Vereshchagin, whose vases were commissioned as ambassadorial gifts of state and for the personal collection of Czar Alexander I
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Pair, vases, ca, 1795–1800, Russian, Archangelsk, Walrus, elephant ivory, 8 5/8, 3, 21.9, 7.6, 7.6 cm, Natural Substances-Ivory, Nikolai Stepanovich Vereshchagin, ca., 1795–1813, art, bone-carving, Russia, inseparably linked, remote northern, whaling, city, Arkhangel'sk, Lack, academic training, humble position, customs office, impediments, widely recognized, bone, carver, Stepanovich, Vereshchagin, commissioned, ambassadorial gifts, state, personal collection, Czar Alexander, I
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