Gorodnitskii Porcelain Factory
First Pioneer Scarf
1957
Before 1957
17.8 x 15.2 x 10.8 cm
Marks: underside: ‘17’ incised in paste.
Dedicatory inscription around base in silver(ed) italic script: ‘Любочке от папы в день рождения 19 16/IV 57 г.’ [To Liubochka from Papa on your birthday, April 16, 1957 g.]
cat. no. 287
Gorodnitskii Porcelain Factory, (Zhitomir oblast’)
Factory founded in 1807. In 1814 purchased by the Princes Liubomirski. After a major fire in the 1870s, ownership was taken over by the Poltava Agricultural Bank and eventually rented to the merchant Zussman. After the revolution, the factory ceased production and was only reopened in the mid-1920s.