Valentine’s Day seems the perfect time to present this miniature which I am calling “The Lovebirds”. From the same lot of five as the Porthos, Pierrot and Voltigeur miniatures posted last year. Every bit their equal in quality. Probably Russian […]
This “Miniature Turk” may have been made by the Russian Imperial Factory. I make my case by comparing it to two other miniatures I attributed to the IPF in March and April of last year. Both are archived and searchable. […]
I saw my first “Man Adjusting Boots” last summer. I thought to myself “if he were a she, this would be an erotic figure”. That was enough to convince me to buy it. Just last month I was reorganizing some […]
This spill vase was made by a Russian Private Factory in the mid nineteenth century. The subject matter makes it so. A man in traditional Russian costume appears to have had one too many for the road. He poses defiantly […]
This Grape Harvesters group was made by the Popov Factory of Russia in the nineteenth century. I didn’t know that when I purchased it but the quality spoke for itself. My instincts were rewarded only a few weeks after it […]
This bust depicts Tsar Alexander I of Russia. It was made by one of the Staffordshire potteries in the nineteenth century. You might wonder why busts of a Russian Tsar would have been made in Staffordshire. I wondered that myself […]
While this quirky porcelain figure group is unsigned, it is unmistakably the product of the Delmas Factory like those posted on February 23 of this year. As you might recall, Delmas was an obscure Russian Private Factory of the mid […]
This “Woman with Child” is the last of the covered inkwells being added to the Sipiagin or Russian Private Factory Group. It shares the enamel numbering system, colour palette, glaze and body characteristics with most other members of the group […]
The Russian Imperial Porcelain Factory survived the October Revolution of 1917 to become the State Porcelain Manufactory (Lomonosov). In the early years of the redefined factory, emphasis was given to porcelain as a propaganda tool. Revolutionary slogans and futurist themes […]
Instead of adding a new piece this week, I am doing some updates to earlier posts. I can now say the miniature I called “Woman Adjusting Corset”, posted April 12, is a recorded figure made by the Gardner Factory of […]