Russian Works of Art, Fabergé and Icons
Russian Works of Art, Fabergé and Icons
Property from a Private European Collection
Bim and Bom: a Soviet porcelain decorative plate, painted by Vyechegzhanina after a design by Chekhonin, State Porcelain Factory, Petrograd, circa 1922
Auction Closed
November 30, 06:31 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private European Collection
Bim and Bom: a Soviet porcelain decorative plate, painted by Vyechegzhanina after a design by Chekhonin, State Porcelain Factory, Petrograd, circa 1922
after a design by Chekhonin, from a limited series, with blue manufactory mark, Imperial cypher for Nicholas II 1898, no. 312/1, inscribed on the reverse in Cyrillic with 'po risunku L.V. / ispolnil' N.B'
diameter 24.2cm; 9½in.
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Bim and Bom plates were designed to commemorate the clown pair Bim and Bom, who were temporarily granted the right to satirize the regime in the early Soviet period. Nina Lobanov-Rostovsky writes in 1990 that there existed ten of such plates in London in the Thirties. Of these plates Sotheby's previously sold five: two were sold Sotheby's, Olympia 20th May 2005, lot 227 and three were sold at Sotheby's, London, 27th November, 2007, lot 609.
Nina Lobanov-Rostovsky: Revolutionary Ceramics, Soviet Porcelain 1917-1927, London, 1990, p. 88.