A set of three porcelain plates with fairy tale scenes, Kornilov Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, 1903-1917

A set of three porcelain plates with fairy tale scenes, Kornilov Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, 1903-1917

circular, the cavettos painted with fairy tale scenes after Ivan Bilibin (1878-1942) the Koschei the Deathless, Frog Princess and the Vasilisa The Beautiful, with gilt rims, the borders painted with forest trees and hexagons with animals in earth colours, each signed I. Bilibin in Cyrillic, marked on the undersides with a printed factory mark and further numbered and inscribed

diameter 26cm, 10 1/3in.