Lot Essay
For a comparable cup and saucer from the Hermitage Museum, see G. Agarkova, N. Petrova, 250 Years of Lomonosov Porcelain Manufacture, St. Petersburg: 1744-1994, St Petersburg, 1994, p. 155; also see T. Kudryartseva, Circling the Square, Avant-garde Porcelain from Revolutionary Russia, London, 2004, p. 82.