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BIRD PLATE, ONE OF 12

Creator(s): Nikolai Nikolaevich Karazin (Designer) , Kornilov Brothers Factory (Manufacturer)

Currently in storage


About this object

Borders taken from old Russian motifs, a sort of rosette in red, green and gold alternating with a larger motif with an interlace on a red ground. Each is decorated with a chromolithographically printed scene of a single type of bird in an appropriate landscape. The bird is identified on the reverse. Caucasian pheasant.

Object name:
BIRD PLATE, ONE OF 12
Made from:
Hard-paste porcelain -- chromolithographic printing -- overglaze enamels -- gilding
Made in:
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Date made:
ca. 1900
Size:
2.9 x 24.1 cm (1 1/8 x 9 1/2 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
25.164.1
Class:
CERAMICS
Signature marks:
MARK Made in Russia by Kornilov Bros brown overglaze below bear with sign JHV, red overglaze number, red overglaze English name of bird impress H/X/X
Credit line:
Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973