Lot 142
  • 142

A Soviet Propaganda Porcelain Plate with Cubist Design and Hammer and Sickle, State Porcelain Factory, Petrograd, 1921

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

  • with blue overglaze factory mark dated 1921, also with obscured mark
  • Porcelain
  • Diameter 9 3/8 in.
  • 23.8 cm
after a design by Sergei Vasilievich Chekhonin (1878-1936)

Literature

News from a Radiant Future, Chicago, 1992, pp. 38, 70-71.

Condition

overall good condition; some small losses to gilding on sickle
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Catalogue Note

Exhibited:

Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, News from a Radiant Future: Soviet Porcelain from the Collection of Craig H. and Kay A. Tuber, October 1992-January 1993, no. 12 (traveling exhibition, visiting the following locations)
Toronto, CA, The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art of the Royal Ontario Museum, March 1994-July 1994
Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, February 1996-May 1996