THE CUP AND SAUCER BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS II, 1895, THE SAUCER WITH MASKED MARK, BOTH WITH WITH LATER BLUE OVERGLAZE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY MARK OF HAMMER, SICKLE AND COG, DATED 1921

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A Soviet porcelain cup and saucer
the cup and saucer by the Imperial Porcelain Factory, period of Nicholas II, 1895, the saucer with masked mark, both with with later blue overglaze State Porcelain Factory mark of Hammer, Sickle and Cog, dated 1921
Circular, painted with abstract composition, after a design by Vassily Kandinsky, marked under bases
the saucer 6¼ in. (16 cm.) diameter
This model is sold with the certificate from Lydia V. Andreeva Director of the Department of Decorative Arts of the State Museum in Tsaritsino, Russia, 1 December 1996.

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Lot Essay

Vassily Vasilievich Kandinsky (1866-1944) produced designs in 1921 for three tea sets produced at the State Porcelain Factory and Dulevo Porcelain Factory near Moscow.
(N. Lobanov-Rostovsky, Revolutionary Ceramics Soviet Porcelain 1917-1927, London, 1990, pp. 15, 129-130 where other works on porcelain after Kandinsky are illustrated, and p. 144.)

Original drawings of the elements and motifs employed for the cup and saucer are held in the Lomonosov Museum Collection, Inventory : MZ-G-24. (see Exhibition catalogue, Circling the Square, London, Somerset House, 2004, p.146.)
For a very similar saucer see the above catalogue, no. 24, p. 146.

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