A RARE SOVIET PORCELAIN PLATE
A RARE SOVIET PORCELAIN PLATE

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS II, 1905, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, LENINGRAD, 1925

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A RARE SOVIET PORCELAIN PLATE
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS II, 1905, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, LENINGRAD, 1925
After the design by Alexandra Shchekotikhina-Pototskaya, depicting four mermaids with ciselé gilt crowns and details, surrounded by the sea and foliage, all within a blue border and a rim of scattered leaves, marked under base with green underglaze factory mark, also with blue overglaze hammer, sickle and cog and dated '1925'
11 ¼ in. (28.5 cm.) diameter

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For a comparable plate from the Hermitage Museum, see Exhibition catalogue, Russian Avant-Garde Ceramic Art, Tokyo, 2003, p. 143, and T.N. Nosovich, I.P. Popova, Gosudarstvennyi Farforovyi Zavod, 1904-1944, St Petersburg, 2005, p. 290.

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