VesselsRussian19th century
Tea Service: Pot with Lid
1887
Artists
Unidentified ArtistArtist
Description
Pear shaped with domed lid, ball finial, arched applied handle and curved spout. Celadon (grey-green) colored ground with round liver-colored reserve panels with white pâte sur pâte scenes from Ivan Krylov's or Aesop's Fables. One side depicts "The Cat and the Mice" and the other has an unidentified scene of five mice with sacs, one holding a hoop and mouse head and one holding a sail. Borders of ivy leaves and berries. Gilded rim and top of finial.
Dimensions
16.19 x 16.35 x 10 cm (6 3/8 x 6 7/16 x 3 15/16 in.)
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