Russian Works of Art, Fabergé & Icons
Russian Works of Art, Fabergé & Icons
Auction Closed
June 4, 04:28 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
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.