| Description: | Russian porcelain Gzhel Chess set with board. The board is 12.25" x 12.25" with a square size of 1.25" x 1.25". The entire chess set and board are hand made of the finest Russian porcelain.The Chess set has a nautical theme with Russian sailors as pawns, various ship officers as the major pieces (including male queens) and port ship-anchors as rooks.
Gzhel is a place sixty kilometers from Moscow, famed as a place of natural beauty and as a seat of renowned pottery manufactures of six centuries’ standing. Known throughout the world, the word gzhel has ample undertones of beauty, harmony and a reality intermingled with magic. The festive blue-patterned porcelain and multi-colored delftware of Gzhel is loved by connoisseurs in all countries due to its makers’ exquisite taste, daring imagination and excellent craftsmanship.
Born in Kazan (1955), Yury Nicholajevich graduated (1979) from the Moscow Technological Institute, where he specialized in artistic ceramics. Since 1980 has been engaged as an artist at the Gzhel Association. He is a member of the Union of Artists and the creator of miniatures, chandeliers, chess-boards, and coffee services. An active participant in many exhibitions in Russia and abroad, his works are on display in GRM, MNI, MO Gzhel, and in important foreign private collections. sold |
