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A SOVIET SUPREMATIST PORCELAIN CUP AND SAUCER FROM THE CONTRAST SERVICE
Lot 391

A SOVIET SUPREMATIST PORCELAIN CUP AND SAUCER FROM THE CONTRAST SERVICE

BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, LENINGRAD, CIRCA 1934

Closed4 June 2018

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GBP 6,250

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A SOVIET SUPREMATIST PORCELAIN CUP AND SAUCER FROM THE CONTRAST SERVICE
BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, LENINGRAD, CIRCA 1934
After the design by Nikolai Suetin, the circular cup, on a spreading foot, painted with abstract design in black and light grey, with a scroll handle, the saucer similarly decorated, both marked under bases with green underglaze hammer, sickle and cog

The cup, 3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) diameter

Specialist note

For a comparable cup and saucer from the Contrast service, see T.N. Nosovich, I.P. Popova, Gosudarstvennyi Farforovyi Zavod, 1904-1944 [State Porcelain Factory, 1904-1944], St Petersburg, 2005, p. 310.