Lot 115
  • 115

A large Soviet porcelain fish platter, Varvara Freze, State Porcelain Manufactory, 1921

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Description

  • length: 44cm., 17¼in
probably after a design by Chekhonin, centred with a bouquet of stylised flowers and with floral and foliate border, signed V.Freze, with manufactory mark dated 1921, and Imperial cypher for Nicholas II dated 1909

Condition

There was a chip 1.7cm long and 7mm wide to the right border, recently restored. The red paint on the border is a little worn in places and some of the paintwork has faded on the border and the centre of the cavetto.
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