Pair of Russian ornithological plates by Kornilov Porcelain Factory (1905)Pair of Russian porcelain dinner plates with native Russian ornithological specimens. The center of the plates are painted with a stylized kingfisher in a landscape and a wild goose in a seascape after designs by Ivan Galnbek (1855 1934). The rims are decorated with Pan Slavic style geometric border motifs, and both are marked under base with a printed factory mark, also numbered and inscribed in English. Marked on the bottom in the underglaze: Made

The inscription on plate

The frame is also fitted with a pair of applied reeded and acanthus leaf chased loop handles

The work has been mounted in an archival deep bevel mat and framed in a cross banded crotch mahogany frame

and a T-shaped bar that controlled the direction of the front wheels

and reptiles

The seat and arms show significant wear

Condition: Engraving has been professionally cleaned

respectively

Mounted on archival French mat in a gold leaf molding

Hand turned & carved eight lobe bowl of native Hawaiian monkeypod wood

17th century

Oyster gray painted beechwood Academic Revival fauteuil in the Louis XVI taste