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Knowledge Lightens Work: A Soviet porcelain plate, State Porcelain Factory, Petrograd, 1921
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description
- diameter 23.8cm, 9 3/8 in.
after the design by Rudolf Vilde, the trowel concealing an Imperial era coat of arms, with hammer, sickle and cog dated 1921 and with green Imperial cypher of Nicholas II dated 1913
Provenance
Formerly in the collection of Nicholas Lynn
Catalogue Note
For comparison, please see N. Lobanov-Rostovsky, Revolutionary Ceramics: Soviet Porcelain, 1917-1927, London, 1990, no. 56, p. 71.