Coffee Service with Pattern Imitating Folk Embroidery

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