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A RARE ARMORIAL PORCELAIN CUP AND SAUCER
A RARE ARMORIAL PORCELAIN CUP AND SAUCER
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A RARE ARMORIAL PORCELAIN CUP AND SAUCER

BY THE POPOV PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY

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A RARE ARMORIAL PORCELAIN CUP AND SAUCER
BY THE POPOV PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
The cylindrical cup painted with a star of the order inscribed with Cyrillic monogram ‘FAM’, probably for Filaret Amfiteatrov (1779-1857), decorated with the objects of Christian worship, a Bishop's mitre, orders and crosses on ciselé gilt ground, within a ciselé gilt border inscribed in Latin ‘Not mine, but God’s’, the upper rim with a beeded border, the reverse decorated with a green border painted with ciselé gilt foliage, with upswept scroll handle, the interior gilt; the saucer similarly decorated, centring a reserve painted with a gilt eagle within a beeded border, marked under bases with impressed factory marks, incised with numeral ‘10’, the cup also incised with letter ‘A’ under base
The cup 3¾ in. (9.4 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

This cup and saucer is probably related to Filaret Amfiteatrov, Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia between 1837 and 1857. Filaret was the founder of St Vladimir's Cathedral in Kiev in 1853. He was a vehement opponent to the translation of the Bible into Russian in the 1820s. In 1839 he was awarded the Order of St Andrew First Called and the same order with diamonds in 1856.

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