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A SOVIET PORCELAIN PLATE 'THE AMOROUS COUPLE'
Lot 446

A SOVIET PORCELAIN PLATE 'THE AMOROUS COUPLE'

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER III, 1888, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1923

Closed25 November 2019

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A SOVIET PORCELAIN PLATE 'THE AMOROUS COUPLE'
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER III, 1888, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1923
After the design by Stella Vengerovskaya, circular with scalloped edge, depicting a man and a woman in traditional Ukrainian dress against the backdrop of a Ukrainian house and a sunset, surrounded by floral motifs, marked under base with green underglaze factory mark and a blue overglaze hammer, sickle and cog, and the date '1923', also inscribed with numerals '673/2'
9 5/8 in. (24.4 cm.) diameter

Private collection, Cheshire, United Kingdom, circa 1976.

Specialist note


Stella Vengerovskaya (1892-1961) worked for the State Porcelain Factory for only a short period of time between 1923 and 1926. Her style was greatly influenced by another celebrated artist, Alexandra Shchekotikhina-Pototskaya, and was inspired by fairy tales and Slavic folklore.

Vengerovskaya was born in Pavlograd, and her designs often incorporated motifs from her native Ukraine. A number of works from the Ukrainian series, including an almost identical plate ‘The Amorous Couple’, a teapot, tray, milk jug and sugar bowl, are part of the Hermitage Museum collection (inv. nos. Mz-S-449-453).