Russian/East European Pottery?

This handled vase (?) is 6.75 inches tall, moulded bells to top of one side and a cossack like figure below with cyrillic (?) lettering. To back is a priest (?) with more lettering. Help to ID please and translate if possible.

 

It is Cyrillic, but not sure whether it is Russian or not. I'm having trouble deciphering the text. I'm wondering whether some of the "letters" are not really letters but are spacers between words. Either that, or they are poorly formed letters. About the only thing I can make into a word or part of a word is "переводу" at the end of the arched letter section. And "перевод" means "translation" in Russian. But since it appears to be part of a longer word, even that is not necessarily the case.

 

Thanks Figtree, not sure whether the bells have a marriage connotation, I wondered whether the words could be a wedding phrase of some kind?

 

Might be Bulgarian.

 

I think Ukranian.
козацькому роду нема переводу

 

All I can think of is a shotgun wedding, sorry.

 

It seems that most times lately when I have thought something looked Russian but I could not make sense of it, it turned out to be Ukrainian. So I think you're onto something! Google translate didn't make good sense of the above phrase, but that doesn't mean anything. The make it out to be "Cossacks kin never."

 

Козацькому роду нема переводу
No end to Cossack kin
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Well done and many thanks!

 

Good find!