BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS II, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1921

Name: A SOVIET PORCELAIN PLATE
Brand: BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS II, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1921
Price: 40000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 50,000

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GBP 8,000 - GBP 12,000

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A SOVIET PORCELAIN PLATE

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS II, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1921

Price Realised GBP 50,000

After the design by Alisa Golenkina, circular, painted en grisaille with the portrait of Maxim Gorky, the border inscribed in Russian 'Everything that is of value and reason was created by knowledge and labour', within black rims, marked under base with masked Imperial Porcelain factory mark, and a blue overglaze hammer, sickle and cog, and the date '1921.', also with blue overglaze artist's monogram Cyrillic 'AG' for Alisa Golenkina
9¹⁄₄ in. (23.5 cm.) diameter

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Lot Essay

For a comparable plate with the portrait of Maxim Gorky, see T.N. Nosovich and I.P. Popova, Gosudarstvennyi farforovyi zavod, 1904-1944, St Petersburg, 2005, p. 185. Alisa Golenkina also created similarly designed plates with the portraits of Anatoly Lunacharsky and Leo Tolstoy.