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CUP

Creator(s): Safronov Factory (Manufacturer)

On view in: Passageway to Dining Room


About this object

Cup is painted teal green with gold scrolls and three cartouches with gold frames reserved in white porcelain and painted with pastoral scenes in colors, an old man seated on a tree stump, a milkmaid with a cow and a youth seated on a rock. Interior is decorated with gold scrolls and varicolored flowers, fruit and butterflies on a white ground. Saucer en suite with four landscapes with rococo gilt reserves.

Object name:
CUP
Made from:
Porcelain
Made in:
Korotkaya, Russia
Date made:
1820-1850
Size:
7.9 x 11.1 cm (3 1/8 x 4 3/8 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
25.146.1
Class:
CERAMICS
Signature marks:
MARK underneath: blue underglaze C over impress see Popov 1820-1850 p. 289
Credit line:
Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973