Original Russian Gzhel Pottery Table CLOCK *Capricorn*.
New. The clock is 6 inch high, 6 x 2 inch in diameter.
Hand-made and hand-painted. Has the the factory logo and authors sign.
Quartz movement.
Gzhel is the name of the village 32 km from Moscow. This name is also applied to the beautiful artistic porcelain ware made there, painted with cobalt on a white background. The first written
mention of Gzhel dates back to 1339, and from the 1770-80s, Gzhel had become the centre of artistic majolica manufacture in Russia.