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Porcelain from a Private Collection, United Kingdom

A Soviet Porcelain serving dish, dinner plate and tea bowl, State Porcelain Factory, Petrograd, circa 1920

Auction Closed

November 25, 06:21 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

the curved sides of the serving dish painted with scrolling plants of vibrant green leaves and blood-orange and cobalt-blue flowers, beneath a gilded rim, the base with cypher of Nicholas II dated 1919 in underglaze green and state factory mark dated 1926 in black overglaze

diam. 29.3 cm; 11 1/2 in.

together with a dinner plate, designed by Sergei Chekhonin, the border with the slogan 'the mind cannot tolerate slavery' in Cyrillic, with polychrome flowers and foliate motifs beneath a green enamel rim, the base with blue state factory mark dated 1919,

diam. 24 cm; 9 1/2 in.

together with a tea bowl, the curved sides painted with a band of scrolling plants with light pink, lavender, orange and yellow flowers of various shapes and sizes, below a gilded rim, the base with state factory mark in underglaze blue and printed Made in Russia mark in red

diam. 9.8 cm; 3 7/8 in.

For another reference to the design of the dinner plate by Chekhonin, see N. Lobanov- Rostovsky, Revolutionary Ceramics, London, 1990, p.47, no. 20