Platter

Sergei Poskochin Factory, St. Petersburg, Russia

About 1810

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Oval box with pink raised floral design.
Tall, bottle-shaped potpourri vase, of white stoneware covered with a blue glaze and a clear pearl glaze, the main body with a pattern of blue and white stripes below a blue band with molded white swags hanging from ribbons, below this a band of beading and above a band of checkerboard pattern, with two covers, one with flat shoulder and pierced with eight large and eight smaller holes, with long striped neck, the other a small, domed, stripped cover with ball finial is a facsimile.
Small, shell-shaped plate with mustard colored edge, in the center the scene of a man and a woman sitting under a tree in a landscape near a water’s edge and surrounded by lush flora. The woman is seated with her knees up wearing a white blouse with blue sash and a red skirt, she plays a recorder while the man leans against her legs, he wears a white tunic and green vest; with blue cloud-like smudges in the sky.
Teapot of buff-colored caneware with applied dark gray-green stoneware relief decoration in the Darwin pattern, the main body with a design of vertical fern fronds, alternating larger and smaller, and whorls of the marsh plant mare's tail, around the shoulder the stem of the same plant, the conforming cover with similar decoration and button finial, the loop handle and straight spout likewise decorated with applied fern fronds and mare's tail whorls, with glazed interior.