Artistic Ceramics of Gzhel and Skopin in the Russian State Museum [RUSSIAN]

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Natalya Grigorieva. Artistic Ceramics of Gzhel and Skopin in the Collections of the State Russian Museum (Художественная Керамика Гжели и Скопина в Собраниях Государственного Русского Музея). An important reference catalog on Gzhel and Skopin ceramics in The State Russian Museum, formerly Russian Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III (father of Nicholas II), and, prior to that, The Palace of the Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna.

USSR: Iskusstvo Publishing, 1987. Hardcover, pictorial boards and decorative endpapers. 149 pages. TEXT IN RUSSIAN. Full color and black and white illustrations. Light wear to corners, otherwise about fine.

While Gzhel's blue and white pottery is well known, due, in part to its resemblance to Dutch delft pottery, Skopin pottery from Ryazan is much less familiar to connoisseurs of folk art. Skopin ware owes its origin to the clay that is found in large quantities in the vicinity of the city of Skopin. At the beginning of the 20th century, there were about 50 workshops in the city, some, which later, united with the "Keramik" artel