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A RARE SOVIET PORCELAIN TUREEN AND COVER
Lot 385 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, MAINE

A RARE SOVIET PORCELAIN TUREEN AND COVER

BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, LENINGRAD, 1927

Closed3 June 2019

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A RARE SOVIET PORCELAIN TUREEN AND COVER
BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, LENINGRAD, 1927
After a design by V. Kornilov, circular, flanked by two handles shaped as ribbons, painted overall with figures of hunters with bows and arrows, the detachable cover with a finial modelled as a ribbon above a hammer, sickle and wheatsheaf, decorated with images of birds, within black borders, marked under base with blue underglaze hammer, sickle and cog, also signed with Cyrillic initials 'VK' and dated '1927'
16 ½ in. (42 cm.) wide across handles

Specialist note

The State Porcelain Factory's archives for 1927 indicate that V. Kornilov produced only one tureen called 'The Hunt', using the form from the Chekhonin's Jubilee service. For comparable items from the Jubilee service, see Exhibition catalogue, The Voice of the Time Soviet Porcelain: Art and Propaganda, St Petersburg, 2017, p. 80, no. 21.
Vladimir Kornilov worked at the State Porcelain Factory only for a short period of time between 1926 and 1928. His designs were influenced by Sergei Chekhonin’s style, which is recognisable on the present lot.
We are grateful to Vladimir Levshenkov for his assistance with the research of the present lot.