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A SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN CUP AND SAUCER
Lot 385

A SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN CUP AND SAUCER

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER III AND NICHOLAS II, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1922

Closed5 June 2017

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GBP 12,500

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A SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN CUP AND SAUCER
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER III AND NICHOLAS II, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1922
The cup painted with a portrait of Lenin, after a design by N. Altman, soldiers, red star, hammer and sickle, factory, and a date '25 X 1917', after a design by M. Adamovich, the saucer similarly decorated, marked under bases with green underglaze Imperial Porcelain Factory marks and blue overglaze hammer, sickle and cog, and the date '1922', both further inscribed 'N 3/7.'
The cup 3¼ in. (8.2 cm.) high

Specialist note

A comparable cup and saucer were sold Christie's, London, 29 November 2006, lot 267.
For cups and saucers with similar design, see N. Lobanov-Rostovsky, Revolutionary Ceramics Soviet Porcelain 1917-1927, New York, 1990, no. 6, pp. 36-37.