Tea steamer "Flowers", A. Marcerou

Porcelain, decal, gilding. The brand is underglaze. Guarantee of authenticity. Rare.

At the beginning of the 20th century, in St. Petersburg, at No. 42 on the Moika River embankment, there was a porcelain, art majolica, crystal and bronze store by A. Marser." Most often, but not always, A. Marceru ordered products in France, at the Limoges factory and marked them with the company logo, and the owner and manager of the store was his brother, architect and artist Pavel Petrovich Marceru, treasurer of the St. Petersburg Society of Architects, member of the editorial board of the magazine "Architect" and publisher of the magazine "The helmsman." According to his project, several houses were built in St. Petersburg, and he was close to the ideas of Art Nouveau. He was the author of the initial designs for the subsequently unrealized "Russian service", conceived by Emile Galle. A sketch of this set with inscriptions in Russian for each of the ten items was donated by the family of Emile Halle to the Nancy School Museum. This fact confirms Marceru's close ties with porcelain manufacturers in France.