Lot 397
  • 397

The Four Ages: A Soviet porcelain cup and a saucer , State Porcelain Factory, Petrograd, 1922

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description

  • porcelain
  • height of cup 7.3cm, 2 7/8 in.; diameter of saucer 14.4cm, 5 3/4 in.
after the pattern by M. Dobuzhinsky, the cup with four figures painted in silhouette representing childhood, youth, maturity and old age, the saucer with Eros, black and gilt borders, both with blue hammer, sickle and cog dated 1922, inscribed in Russian 'based on the design of Dobuzhinsky', numbered 316/15, the cup with green Imperial cypher of Emperor Alexander II dated [18]90, the saucer with green Imperial cypher of Emperor Nicholas II dated 1915

Condition

Excellent condition.
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Catalogue Note

For further information on this pattern and other examples from this series, please see T. N. Nosovich and I. P. Popova, Gosudarstvennyi farforovyi zavod, 1904-1944, St Petersburg, 2005, p. 196-197; and E. Sametskaya, Sovetskii Agitatsionyi Farfor, Moscow, 2004, p. 264.