Russian pots

The balance of the snaps from our visit to London rather more than a week ago now.

Anticlockwise from left, the last of the Friuli, the tiramisu, the marc and the coffee. The tiramisu went down well enough, despite the hefty topping of chocolate sauce. Nutella? I liked the little pot the marc came in and I liked this Italian marc better than the French variety I last tried.

A neat bit of shop-dressing in a light well in John Lewis. Did they hire a full-on graduate of an art school to put it together, or do they content themselves with old-fashioned window dressers to do such stuff? They certainly put on a good show at Christmas - rather better than the sort of show - cod Edwardian - often put on by Fortnum & Mason.

I had thought that this building was a complete fake, that is to say more or less brand new pretending to be old, after the fashion of HRH at Poundbury. But there is a chimney, which I did not notice at the time, so perhaps just a thorough going refurbishment. In St. George Street, just across Maddox Street from St. George's Church - which I had thought was called the Hanover Chapel, which last does not seem to exist. In any event, shut on Sundays. Note the interesting optical effects in and around the brickwork - although not as interesting in the posted version of the snap as they are on my laptop.

It was the poster for this rather splendid pot which tempted us into Sotheby's. The product of Soviet Pot Factory No.25, somewhere in what was Soviet Central Asia. Or some such name.

Exhibited opposite the camel, but presumably not from Pot Factory No.25, although I did not think to look where it did come from. There were also a number of paintings of woods, fields and rivers in the style of the French impressionists which I rather liked, rather more than the more modern paintings on offer - a lot of which appeared to be being sold by collectors from the US.

Another possible fake, this one at the bottom of Bruton Lane, just before you get to Sexy Fish in Berkeley Square. Sufficiently grand that there is what appears to be some curved glass to the ground floor windows. Clearly need to take a closer look next time we are in the area.

Will we ever get to eat in Sexy Fish - given that I suspect you pay a lot more to be there than you pay for what you get there?

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