A Rare and Early Soviet Porcelain Plate, Mikhail Adamovich (1884-1947), State Porcelain Factory, 1919

Estimate

7,000 - 9,000 USD

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Description

with Adamovich's monogram, the factory's hammer and sickle mark, and the date 1919 all in blue overglaze, the green cypher of Nicholas II dated 1911 partially obscured by green overglaze diamond
Glazed porcelain
Diameter 8 1/2 in.
21.6 cm

the center of the plate painted with a fragment of a classical column and cornice next to a tree, with additional ruins and a traveler in the distance, all in shades of iron red

Condition

overall good condition; some very small losses to the painted decoration
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Catalogue Note

The classical ruins rendered in shades of a single color represent painter Mikhail Adamovich's earliest experiments at the State Porcelain Factory. Influenced by the new theory of "Proletarian Classicism," as well as his own earlier travels through Greece, from 1918-1919 he painted a group of imaginary ruins, occasionally including the architecture of St. Petersburg. For other examples, see E.F. Gollerbakh, ed. Russkii khudozhestvennyi farfor, Leningrad, 1924, pp. 53-55, 62-63 and T.N. Nosovich and I.P. Popova, Gosudarstvennyi farforovyi zavod, 1904-1944, St. Petersburg, 2005, pp. 251, 254-255.