After the design by Alexandra Shchekotikhina-Pototskaya, the cup painted with a monk and devil within an interior, with a city landscape on the left, with ciselé gilt leaves on the interior of the cup, the saucer painted with a monk astride a flying devil, above a church tower, marked under bases with green underglaze Imperial Porcelain factory marks, also with blue overglaze hammer, sickle and cog, and the date '1922', also inscribed with numerals '93/12'
The cup, 2³⁄₄ in. (7 cm.) high

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For a comparable cup and saucer numbered '93/8' from the Peterhof Museum, see T.N. Nosovich, I.P. Popova, Gosudarstvennyi Farforovyi Zavod, 1904-1944, St Petersburg, 2005, p. 288; for another similar cup and saucer numbered '93/3', see N. Lobanov-Rostovsky, Revolutionary Ceramics Soviet Porcelain 1917-1927, London, 1990, p. 124, no. 146.