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A SOVIET PORCELAIN TEA SERVICE 'CONTRAST'
Lot 439

A SOVIET PORCELAIN TEA SERVICE 'CONTRAST'

BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, LENINGRAD, CIRCA 1934

Closed25 November 2019

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A SOVIET PORCELAIN TEA SERVICE 'CONTRAST'
BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, LENINGRAD, CIRCA 1934
After the design by Nikolai Suetin, comprising a teapot, milk jug and sugar bowl, each with detachable covers, and two cups and saucers, each painted with a block colour design in black and pale grey, all but one marked under bases with a green underglaze hammer, sickle and cog
The teapot, 5 ½ in. (14 cm.) high and smaller

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For a comparable service from the Hermitage Museum, see T. Kudryartseva, Circling the Square, Avant-garde Porcelain from Revolutionary Russia, London, 2004, p. 133, no. 152, and T.N. Nosovich, I.P. Popova, Gosudarstvennyi Farforovyi Zavod, 1904-1944, St Petersburg, 2005, p. 310.