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A SOVIET PORCELAIN PLATE 'THE ACCORDION PLAYER'
Lot 360

A SOVIET PORCELAIN PLATE 'THE ACCORDION PLAYER'

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, 1896, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1923

Closed26 November 2018

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A SOVIET PORCELAIN PLATE 'THE ACCORDION PLAYER'
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, 1896, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1923
After the design by Alexandra Shchekotikhina-Pototskaya, depicting an accordion player on a balcony, the border decorated with ciselé gilt foliage and trees, marked under base with green underglaze factory mark and black overglaze Jubilee mark for the fifth anniversary of the State Porcelain Factory, inscribed in Russian 'After a dr.[awing] by Shchekotikhina.' and signed with initials ‘MK.', also numbered 'N 142/1'
11 1/8 in. (28.3 cm.) diameter

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 '142/6' was sold Christie's, London, 28 November 2016, lot 401, and another plate numbered '142/2' was sold Christie's, London, 29 November 2006, lot 268.