BREAD AND SALT DISH WITH VIEW OF THE MOSCOW KREMLIN

Creator(s): M.S. Kuznetsov Factory (Manufacturer)

On view in: Russian Porcelain Room

About this object

A heavily modelled plate - in center is a view of the Kremlin from the river in gold on a midnight blue ground. Around this is a raised gold band and then one in midnight blue. On the rim are four ovoid panels each containing bogatyr scenes in gold on a midnight blue ground.

Object name:

BREAD AND SALT DISH WITH VIEW OF THE MOSCOW KREMLIN

Made from:

Porcelain

Made in:

Novo-Khariatonovo, Russia

Date made:

1887-1917

Size:

45.7 cm (18 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

25.428

Class:

CERAMICS

Signature marks:

MARK overglaze green eagle on back (see Popov #321 for late 19th to early 20th century) possibly commemorating the anniversary of the founding of Moscow

Credit line:

Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973