Faience craze in imperial Russia
DZHUNKOVSKII, Vasilii Iakovlevich
Nastavleniie o delanii faiansovoi posudy, po preporucheniiu Volnago Ekonomicheskogo obshchestva, iz dostovernykh opytnykh sochinenii [Instruction on Making Faience Ware, by Assignment of the Free Economic Society, from Reliable Experimental Works, Collected by a Member of the Society]
£3,950
Faience craze in imperial Russia
Nastavleniie o delanii faiansovoi posudy, po preporucheniiu Volnago Ekonomicheskogo obshchestva, iz dostovernykh opytnykh sochinenii. [Instruction on Making Faience Ware, by Assignment of the Free Economic Society, from Reliable Experimental Works, Collected by a Member of the Society]
Published/created in: 1814
£3,950
Nastavleniie o delanii faiansovoi posudy, po preporucheniiu Volnago Ekonomicheskogo obshchestva, iz dostovernykh opytnykh sochinenii. [Instruction on Making Faience Ware, by Assignment of the Free Economic Society, from Reliable Experimental Works, Collected by a Member of the Society]
Published/created in: 1814
£3,950
Extremely rare work, with no copy traced outside Russia. The first Russian book on faience, with an overview of the internatial state of knowledge in the field. Illustrated with a plate of an English oven. An attractive example, with contemporary provenance.
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