Russian Works of Art, Fabergé & Icons

Russian Works of Art, Fabergé & Icons

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The idle belly must not enjoy what toiling hands have won: A Soviet porcelain plate, State Porcelain Factory, Petrograd, 1918

Auction Closed

June 4, 04:28 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

Lot Details

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The idle belly must not enjoy what toiling hands have won: A Soviet porcelain plate, State Porcelain Factory, Petrograd, 1918


after the design by Sergei Chekhonin, plain white cavetto, the rim inscribed with the quote from Dmitry Minaev's

Russian translation of 'Germany. A Winter’s Tale' by Heinrich Heine (1844) and a single flower, puce border, with an

obscured Imperial cypher of Nicholas II, blue factory mark dated 1918

diameter 23.4cm, 9¼in.

For comparison, please see T.N. Nosovich and I.P. Popova, Gosudarstvennyi farforovyi zavod, 1904-1944, St. Petersburg, 2005, p. 234.