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A SOVIET PORCELAIN TEA SERVICE
BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, LENINGRAD, 1930S
After a design by Lyubov Blak, comprising a teapot and cover, a milk-jug and cover and a teacup, the teapot and milk jug decorated with peasants and hunting scenes, the teacup decorated with foliage, each above a blue base, marked under bases with green underglaze and blue overglaze hammer, sickle and cog, an overglaze red export mark 'Made in Russia / U.S.S.R.', inscribed in Cyrillic 'Blak / N11'
The teapot, 9 in. (22.8 cm.) high