Art objects

Wedgwood factory, Staffordshire, England. 1810s

Black Basalt ware.

Height: 24 cm, base measures 12.5 by 9.5 cm

Entered the State Historical Museum collection in 1925 from the Museum of Old Moscow.

This elaborately shaped teapot is decorated with rich relief-work. The middle of the body features oak boughs with acorns. Above these, a laurel wreath encircles the Prince of Wales’s feathers – the heraldic badge of the Prince of Wales. The spout is in the form of a lion’s head, with the handle in the shape of a dolphin. Just as the lion is king among beasts, in the heraldic sense, the dolphin was considered the king of fishes. The decoration shows Britain’s special status as an empire and a seafaring nation. The top of the lid is shaped like St. Edward’s Crown – the centrepiece of the British regalia, used to crown new monarchs.

Wedgwood factory, Etruria, Staffordshire, England. 1800-1810s

Queen’s ware. Height: 27.5 cm, diameter: 18.5 cm

Impressed Wedgwood mark

Entered the Historical Museum collection in 1922 as part of a group of privately owned items submitted for safekeeping during World War One (1914-1918) and never reclaimed

Kiev-Mezhegorsky faience factory, Kiev, Russia. 1830s-1840s

Underglaze transfer printing on faience. Diameter: 24 cm.

Impressed mark reads “Kiev”, underglaze green mark in the shape of the Royal Coat of Arms reads “Mezh- ygoriye”.

Entered the Historical Museum collection in 1922 as part of a group of privately owned items submitted for safekeeping during World War One (1914-1918) and never reclaimed

Wedgwood & Co, Tunstall, Staffordshire, England. 1870-1880s

Underglaze printing on ironstone ware.

Diameter: 27 cm

Brown underglaze patent mark in the form of the Royal Coat of Arms surrounded by the initials “D.W.”.

Purchased from R.M. Leonova in 1951

Pattern patented under the name “St. Petersburg”

George L. Ashworth and Brothers, Hanley, Staffordshire, England. 1860s

Underglaze transfer printing on ironstone ware.

Diameter:  27 cm

Impressed Ashworth mark, purple underglaze mark in the form of a sarcoph- agus with the word “Acropolis” inside and the words “G.L.A. & Bros.” underneath.

Patent mark in the form of the Royal Coat of Arms with the initials “DW” to either side.

Entered the museum collection in 1940 from the Alexandrovskaya Sloboda Museum.

Brothers Korniloff factory, St. Petersburg, Russia. 1880s-1890s

Overglaze transfer printing, painting and gilding on porcelain

Multicoloured overglaze transfer mark in the form of a double-headed eagle with the words “Bratiev Kornilovykh v SPeterburge” (Brothers Korniloff in St. Petersburg).

Purchased from N.N. Tretyakova in 1995

The decoration uses a fragment of the English transfer-printed Moscow design

Brothers Samsonov, Kosherovo Village, Bogorodsky Uyezd, Moscow Province, Russia. 1850s-1875

Underglaze transfer printing on faience

Diameter: 25 cm

Impressed oblong mark with the initials “B.S.”, black underglaze mark in the form of a caduceus with the words “FB Zamzonof”

Andrei Khrapunov-Novy factory, Kuziayevo Village, Bogorodsky Uyezd, Moscow Province, Russia. 1850s-1890s

Underglaze transfer printing on faience

Diameter: 24.5 cm

Black underglaze mark in the form of a basket of flowers, with the words “Khrapunova Novago”.

Purchased in 1974 from Ye.S. Shaposhnikova

Shirobokov, Dipedri and Borisov factory, Gorodische Village, Vyshnevolotsky Uyezd, Tver Province, Russia. 1844-1854.

Underglaze transfer printing on yellow faience.

Diameter: 25.7 cm

Impressed “Shirobokov Depedri Barisov” mark, black underglaze mark in the form of a vignette, with the words “F Shirobokova Depedri Barisova v Gorodische” (Shirobokov Dipedri Borisov in Gorodishche). Stamped mark in the form of the number “10”, stamped mark in the form of a rosette with seven petals and stamped black underglaze mark with the letter “K”.

Purchased from M. Riabova in 1936

With case

D. Napier & Son. London.

Metal, wood, glass, paper. Factory-manufactured.

34.5 × 28 × 28 cm – with case

Height: 15.3 cm, length: 12.2 cm

Green underglaze mark features a crown with “A II” underneath

Tea cup height: 6.6 cm, length 9 cm

Saucer height: 2 cm, diameter 12.5 cm

Gold embossing, bronze on leather

Painted with design by Wassily Kandinsky

Porcelain, overglaze painting

Height of the cup – 5 cm

Diameter of the saucer – 14.5 cm

Contemporary.

Artist Fan Minqi

Porcelain, polychrome paint with ‘famille rose’ colour scheme

Bronze ware

Early Spring and Autumn Period (770-453 BCE)

Diameter: 45 cm 

Emperor Yongzheng,Qing Dynasty (1723-1735)

Height: 39.5 cm

Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127)

Height: 26.1 cm

Emperor Qianlong, Qing Dynasty (1736-1796)

Height: 24 cm

Model Scroll in Сursive Script

Silk scroll

Wang Xianzhi, Eastern Jin Dynasty (317-420)

Length: 26.1 cm 

Paper

Mi Fu, Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127)

31.2 x 53.1 cm

Ivory

Qing Dynasty (1636-1912)