Imperial Antiques

Description

We are selling this brightly decorated 19th Century Russian Gardner porcelain water jug / ewer. It is decorated with deep blue flowers and foilage with burnt orange highlights and gilding to neck, rim and handle. Underneath impressed marks TK IV and two others (as shown in picture).

Measuring 9 inches in height with body width being 6 inches. In good condition for age and with just wear to gilding as you would expect to find on a piece of this age.


Founded at Verbilki, near Moscow, by the Englishman Francis Gardner in 1766, and known for its hard paste porcelains, the Gardner factory served as important competition for the Imperial Porcelain Factory, spurring artists at both institutions to produce more complicated wares in terms of both form and decoration. One of two porcelain works in Russia during the 18th century, The factory was situated in the Gjelsk region where local clay, which proved suitable for porcelain, could be used. Gardner started with a German manager called Gattenberg, who later joined the Imperial Factory, and he employed a well-known German painter, Kestner. But these and other foreigners taught many Russian craftsmen, principally serfs, who gradually replaced them, as soon as they had mastered the various techniques so that the number of foreigners employed in key positions steadily diminished in course of time.

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At Imperial Antiques we pride ourselves on our quality stock at competitive prices. We have a large selection of daily changing stock sourced from the length and breadth of the Country. “Buy With Confidence”. As members of LAPADA all our stock is guaranteed.

The golden chandelier symbol displayed in a window or at a fair is the sign of membership of LAPADA, the Association of Art & Antiques Dealers. Since its inception in 1974, LAPADA’s membership has grown to over 600 members making it the largest association of professional art and antiques dealers in the United Kingdom. Although the majority of its membership is UK based, LAPADA also currently has 50 members in 16 other countries. Membership is only open to those who meet the Association’s requirements as to experience, quality of stock and knowledge of their subject. Between them members cover virtually every discipline from antiquities to contemporary fine art.

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We are open Monday 9.30-4.30, Tuesday 9.30-4.30, Wednesday closed, Thursday 9.30-4.30, Friday 9.30-4.30 and Saturday 10.00-5.00 (or by appointment).

DISTANCE SELLING REGULATIONS

All items purchased from Imperial Antiques Ltd are covered under the Distance Selling Regulations, which give all buyers the right to cancel the purchase within 7 days after receipt of the item, for a full refund less RETURN transport costs.

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