A SOVIET PORCELAIN PLATE
A SOVIET PORCELAIN PLATE

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1919

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A SOVIET PORCELAIN PLATE
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1919
Circular, the centre painted with Cubist landscape and a house in green, blue and brick red, after a design by Vladimir Lebedev, within yellow and black border, marked under base with masked Imperial Porcelain Factory mark and blue overglaze hammer, sickle and cog, and the date '1919'
8 5/8 in. (21.8 cm.) diameter

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Lot Essay

For an almost identical plate, dated 1921, see N. Lobanov-Rostovsky, Revolutionary Ceramics, New York, 1990, p. 131, no. 160. For another similar plate, see T. Kudravtseva, Circling the Square, London, 2004, p. 108, no. 67. A comparable plate was sold Christie's, London, 3 June 2013, lot 330.

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