BY THE POPOV PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
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A rare porcelain ink-stand
by the Popov Porcelain Factory, Moscow, second half 19th century
Formed as a thatched cottage with scrolling gables, a tree climbing up one side, a peasant in simple Russian costume and holding a stick, with a dog, beside a hollow tree stump at one end and his wife emerging from the front door at the other, to one side a detachable bucket with ivory cover forms the inkwell, with a cart wheel as the pen holder, on shaped naturalistic base, marked under base with blue underglaze Cyrillic monogram 'AP' and under the bucket with incised, blue underglaze mark
6¾ in. (17.2 cm.) high
For a very similar ink-stand by the Gardner Porcelain Factory, see L. Nikifirova, Russian Porcelain in the Hermitage Collection Leningrad, 1973, pl. 126.
by the Popov Porcelain Factory, Moscow, second half 19th century
Formed as a thatched cottage with scrolling gables, a tree climbing up one side, a peasant in simple Russian costume and holding a stick, with a dog, beside a hollow tree stump at one end and his wife emerging from the front door at the other, to one side a detachable bucket with ivory cover forms the inkwell, with a cart wheel as the pen holder, on shaped naturalistic base, marked under base with blue underglaze Cyrillic monogram 'AP' and under the bucket with incised, blue underglaze mark
6¾ in. (17.2 cm.) high
For a very similar ink-stand by the Gardner Porcelain Factory, see L. Nikifirova, Russian Porcelain in the Hermitage Collection Leningrad, 1973, pl. 126.
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