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A SOVIET SUPREMATIST PORCELAIN CUP AND SAUCER
Lot 280

A SOVIET SUPREMATIST PORCELAIN CUP AND SAUCER

BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, LENINGRAD, CIRCA 1930

Closed23 November 2020

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GBP 12,500

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A SOVIET SUPREMATIST PORCELAIN CUP AND SAUCER
BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, LENINGRAD, CIRCA 1930
After the design by Nikolai Suetin, the cup painted with an abstract composition in pink, light green, brown and black on white ground, the saucer similarly decorated, marked under bases with blue underglaze hammer, sickle and cog, and overglaze red export mark 'Made in Russia'
The cup, 3 in. (7.6 cm.) high

Specialist note

For a nearly identical cup and saucer, see T. Kudryartseva, Circling the Square, Avant-garde Porcelain from Revolutionary Russia, London, 2004, p. 130, no. 143.