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Two soviet porcelain plates, both after designs by Sergei Chekhonin, State Porcelain Manufactory, 1919, 1922
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description
- diameters: 24cm., 9½in; 25.5cm., 10in
one with green and gilt border, decorated with vari-coloured stylised foliage, with blue factory mark dated 1922, no. 246/5 and with green Imperial cypher for Nicholas II dated 1911; the other with scalloped blue border decorate with floral and gilt decoration, gilt sprig to the cavetto framed by painted green leaves, with blue factory mark dated 1919 and green Imperial cypher for Alexander II, both damaged
Catalogue Note
The green and gilt floral plate is believed to have been part of an Embassy service, it was identified as such by Nina Lobanov-Rostovsky.