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A SOVIET PORCELAIN CUP AND SAUCER FROM THE AGROGRAD SERVICE
Lot 438

A SOVIET PORCELAIN CUP AND SAUCER FROM THE AGROGRAD SERVICE

BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, LENINGRAD, CIRCA 1931

Closed25 November 2019

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GBP 31,250

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A SOVIET PORCELAIN CUP AND SAUCER FROM THE AGROGRAD SERVICE
BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, LENINGRAD, CIRCA 1931
After the design by Nikolai Suetin, the body of the cup painted with a band of orange above a black rim, the saucer with a row of four white tractors on black ground, surmounted by an orange and grey block, the saucer marked under base with green underglaze hammer, sickle and cog
The saucer, 5 7/8 in. (15 cm.) diameter

Specialist note


For a comparable cup and saucer from the Hermitage Museum, see G. Agarkova, N. Petrova, 250 Years of Lomonosov Porcelain Manufacture, St. Petersburg: 1744-1994, St Petersburg, 1994, p. 155; also see T. Kudryartseva, Circling the Square, Avant-garde Porcelain from Revolutionary Russia, London, 2004, p. 82.