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A SOVIET SUPREMATIST PORCELAIN PART TEA SERVICE
Lot 278 PROPERTY OF A LADY

A SOVIET SUPREMATIST PORCELAIN PART TEA SERVICE

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS II, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1923

Closed23 November 2020

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A SOVIET SUPREMATIST PORCELAIN PART TEA SERVICE
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS II, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1923
After the design by Alexander Gromov, comprising a cream jug with a detachable cover, and three cups and saucers; all painted with Suprematist compositions in black, red, green, yellow, and grey on white ground, with black scroll handles, saucers marked with green underglaze Imperial Porcelain Factory marks and black overglaze hammer, sickle and cog, also inscribed '1923/543' (one mark partially erased), the cups and cream jug marked with green underglaze hammer, sickle and cog, and inscribed in black '1923 / 543/7,9,10,20' respectively
The cream jug, 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, 21 May 1981, lot 651.
Acquired from the above by the previous owner.
Thence by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

The State Porcelain Factory archives indicate that a Suprematist service by Alexander Gromov was produced in 1923 and entered under inventory number '543'. The style of the present service is comparable to another tea set produced by Alexander Gromov in 1923, which was sold at Sotheby's, London, 8 June 2011, lot 612.

We are grateful to Vladimir Levshenkov for his assistance with the research of the present lot.