A RUSSIAN PORCELAIN COFFEE SET, M.S. KUZNETSOV MANUFACTORY, VERBILKI, CIRCA 1900 |

in the Art Nouveau taste, comprising coffee pot, sugar bowl, milk jug, and six cups and saucers, with bands of gilt ornament and gilded handles, with stamped iron red mark of the Gardner Manufactory, some items with production number 1076 (17)

very attractive and excellent; wear to gilding throughout consistent with age and use, the lidded handle of the coffee pot but with very high quality repair
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The prestige of Gardner's name was so great in Russia that, even after Matvei Kuznetsov had added the venerable institution to his empire of ceramics manufactories, he directed workers to continue to use the older factory mark, as is the case on the offered lot.