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1929	Work on this object began.
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Ornamental Landscape Cup And Saucer

This is a Cup and saucer. It was designed by Alexei Viktorovich Vorobyevsky and decorated by Alexei Viktorovich Vorobyevsky and manufactured by Lomonosov Porcelain Factory. It is dated 1929 and we acquired it in 1989. Its medium is porcelain, enamel, gilding. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

It is credited The Henry and Ludmilla Shapiro Collection; Partial gift and partial purchase through the Decorative Arts Association Acquisition and Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program Funds.

A rectangular vanity case possessing an eclectic design, wearing luscious green enamel similar to green jade and displaying wide borders on the face of the case surrounding a mountain landscape with embellishments in a vertical orientation. The complex landscape displays brightness employing mother-of-pearl shell as if actual light were imbuing the sky and water left of center. The vertical mountains on the right of center are composed of an interesting repeated shape of three arches; two outer are lower than the center resembling a person’s head and shoulders. This shape is repeated in a variety of light colored mother-of-pearl and vivid abalone shell colors. The bottom third of the mosaic shows a calm river bank in a light gray color with small rocks left of center and a large rock right of center in vivid blues, greens and pinks with a gold tree trunk emanating with abalone leaves. A narrow gold line borders most of the landscape with a row of small diamonds embellishing the bottom and top. Both wide green enamel borders share two individual designs vertically placed on the top. The uppermost design is a horizontal rectangle designed with a black enamel border divided into four quadrants and a geometric step rectangle in the center with gold in the negative space of the quadrants and a small gold lozenge shape in the center. The elegant design beneath employs three long vertically connected diamond baguettes encased in a narrow gold border and a black enamel border with a short gold line above and below with three short columns of hanging diamonds below, the middle is longer than the sides. A single baguette on each lower side rests on the face with a short single row of small diamonds located on the seen front side as a thumbpiece. Black onyx beveled tiles adorn the side and front of the vanity case. The photograph captures the case resting with its upper body right of center diagonally positioned with visible bottom and the right side reflecting the image and a caste shadow on a white surface.

Vanity Case, Mountain Landscape, ca. 1928
green and black enamel, mother-of-pearl, diamonds, onyx, gold, mirrored plate....
Lent by Private Collection.
13.2016.82

Its dimensions are

H x diam.: 7.5 x 13.5 cm (2 15/16 x 5 5/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Marks: On the underside of each: hammer, sickle, cog stamped in blue underglaze; "Made in Russia" stamped in red overglaze; "A. Vorobyevsky / 1929" hand- painted in black overglaze

Cite this object as

Ornamental Landscape Cup And Saucer; Designed by Alexei Viktorovich Vorobyevsky (1906); Manufactured by Lomonosov Porcelain Factory (Russia); porcelain, enamel, gilding; H x diam.: 7.5 x 13.5 cm (2 15/16 x 5 5/16 in.); The Henry and Ludmilla Shapiro Collection; Partial gift and partial purchase through the Decorative Arts Association Acquisition and Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program Funds; 1989-41-74-a,b

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2Dv18/
Accession Number 1989-41-74-a,b
Object ID 18633203