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 Moscow c.1850. There is a known example in the book “Farfor Verbilok (History of Russian, Soviet Porcelain at Gardner, Dmitrovsk 1970)”. While the text is in Russian, there are annotations in French that list this other as being in the Kuskovo Museum. In the black and white photo, it sits with an alternate example of one of the figures I had referenced for similarity in the original post.
The scenic cup in “Enamelled Views of Peterhof” posted September 13 has same view as a cup in a recently published booklet celebrating the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Batenin factory. There is a cup pictured in it with the same scene painted from slightly further back and higher up. The vantage point of both views is likely a hillside. The enamelling looks the same though the shapes of the two cups are different. Mine must be Batenin c.1820.
I recently changed the title and description for the plaques posted September 27. They are not Pratt Ware after all. They are of ‘Continental’ (European) origin. Much to learn still. They are still an awesome pair.
