April 12, 2024
Porcelain Lattice Work Basket Metropolitan Museum Art
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***** RUSSIAN LATTICE-WORK BASKET - with Forget-Me-Nots ***** *** METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART *** This lovely basket is in "good as new" condition. It has never been used. It would make a wonderful Christmas or Wedding gift. Or make a lovely addition to your home decor. It is very pretty, I tried to do it justice with pictures. Please check them out! The basket is approximately 9-1/2" x 7" and is approximately 2-3/4" tall. The following information is quoted from the printed description that came with the basket............. "Russian Mid-19th-Century State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg This openwork basket with its dainty flowered trelis design is adapted from a mid-19th-century piece in the collection of the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. The design, however, is evocative of the first dinner-serice made at the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory in St. Petersburg in about 1758 for the personal use of Empress Elisabeth. It was produced under the supervision of Dimitry Vinogradov, the inventor of Russian porcelain and a well-known 18th-century scientist. The service became very popular and continued to be produced by the factory under the auspices of Nicholas I. In the 19th-century version, blue Forget-Me-Nots were substituted for the original purple flowers. The Museum's reproduction is fragile and should be handled with
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