A Porcelain Inkwell
By the Miklashevsky Factory, Chernigov, mid-19th century
Modeled as a man in eighteenth-century costume playing a shawm, seated next to a gushing fountain from which a bird is drinking, on a rocaille-shaped square base painted in faux marble, the removable cover with a flower finial, marked under base with the combined initials AM in overglaze red
7 5/8 in. (19.4 cm.) high
A Porcelain Inkwell
By the Miklashevsky Factory, Chernigov, mid-19th century
Modeled as a man in eighteenth-century costume playing a shawm, seated next to a gushing fountain from which a bird is drinking, on a rocaille-shaped square base painted in faux marble, the removable cover with a flower finial, marked under base with the combined initials AM in overglaze red
7 5/8 in. (19.4 cm.) high
