Lot 144
  • 144

A Soviet porcelain plate: "3rd Internationale", Alexandra Shchekotikhina-Pototskaya, State Porcelain Manufactory, 1921

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description

  • diameter: 26.8cm., 10½in
after a design by the artist with Internationale painted in red, entwined with a giant 3 and 1921, further decorated with hammer, sickles and wild flowers, with blue factory mark dated 1921, artist's cypher for Elizavata Potapova, and green Imperial cypher for Nicholas II dated 1912

Provenance

Sotheby's London, 5th April 1990, Lot 191

Condition

The top right side of the 3 is slightly rubbed. Further rubbing to the yellow and black paintwork.
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