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BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST. PETERSBURG, 1896, WITH STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY MARKS, 1922, PAINTED BY MARIA LEBEDEVA
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A Soviet porcelain propaganda Platter
by the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg, 1896, with State Porcelain Factory marks, 1922, painted by Maria Lebedeva
Circular, the centre painted with Baba-Iaga with her cat and raven, cooking for a smoking pot, the smoke painted onto the rim from which grow trees and a peasant with a banner inscribed with the Soviet slogan 'The Future has no Fear of Past Horrors', by Maria Lebedeva, within black border, marked on base
12.in. (30.4cm.) diam.
by the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg, 1896, with State Porcelain Factory marks, 1922, painted by Maria Lebedeva
Circular, the centre painted with Baba-Iaga with her cat and raven, cooking for a smoking pot, the smoke painted onto the rim from which grow trees and a peasant with a banner inscribed with the Soviet slogan 'The Future has no Fear of Past Horrors', by Maria Lebedeva, within black border, marked on base
12.in. (30.4cm.) diam.
Literature
Lobanov-Rostovsky, p.85, illustration no.77.
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Sale room notice
The illustration of this lot is misnumbered 372 in the printed catalogue.