POTS-À-CRÈME FROM THE ORLOV SERVICE
Creator(s): Imperial Porcelain Factory (Manufacturer)
On view in: Second Floor Hallway
About this object
From the Orlov service, this pot is one of two that has a ring foot and the shape bulges in the lower part. On the front and back of each is a medallion with a gold border containing the initials of Count Gregory Orlov in Russian, TTO. Around the lower part of the pot is a landscape in silver and about the upper edge a border in gold. The handles are in gold. Each cover has a gold border and a landscape in silver and on the top a crown with nine points in gold and silver.
- Object name:
- POTS-À-CRÈME FROM THE ORLOV SERVICE
- Made from:
- Porcelain
- Made in:
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Date made:
- 1760
- Size:
- 7.9 × 8.3 cm (3 1/8 × 3 1/4 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 25.240.1-2
- Class:
- CERAMICS
- Signature marks:
- MARK underneath with circle and arrow in underglaze blue.
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973