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A SOVIET PORCELAIN PLATE 'THE ACCORDION PLAYER'
Lot 401

A SOVIET PORCELAIN PLATE 'THE ACCORDION PLAYER'

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, 1896, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1923-1924

Closed28 November 2016

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A SOVIET PORCELAIN PLATE 'THE ACCORDION PLAYER'
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, 1896, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1923-1924
After the design by Alexandra Shchekotikhina-Pototskaya, marked under base with green underglaze and black overglaze Jubilee mark for the fifth anniversary of the State Porcelain Factory, inscribed in Russian and signed with initials ‘MK.’, also numbered 'N 142/6'
11 in. (28 cm.) diameter

Kazimierz Marian Wyszynski (1890-1935), Polish politician and consul in Moscow in 1923-1927.
By descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

For a comparable plate from the collection of the State Hermitage, see T.N. Nosovich, I.P. Popova, Gosudarstvennyi Farforovyi Zavod, 1904-1944 [State Porcelain Factory, 1904-1944], St Petersburg, 2005, p. 291.
A comparable plate numbered '142/2' was sold Christie's, London, 29 November 2006, lot 268.