£20
Children's China. A Russian earthenware nursery mug, M S Kuznetsov, c 1900, transfer-printed in brown with Krylov's fable of The Donkey and the Nightingale, 8.6cm h, printed brown Imperial Romanov eagle and Cyrillic characters, impressed 7
Provenance: Richard Dennis OBE, publisher of Gifts for Good Children: The History of Children's China, Parts I & II: 1790-1890, & 1890-1990 (Ilminster, 1991 & 2006)
A rare mug. Base with restored crack; the rim with worn/flaked losses to glaze, subsequently restored with later glaze; restored handle.
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