A Soviet porcelain soup bowl: "The Mill", Alexandra Shchekotikhina-Pototskaya, State Porcelain Manufactory, 1925

after a design by the artist, cobalt blue, decorated at intervals with peasant faces, the cavetto with mill painted in gilt, further gilt decoration throughout, restored, with black factory mark dated 1925, after a design by Shchekotikhina, with artist cypher for Varvara Rukavishnikova and green Imperial cypher for Alexander III dated '93