Lot Essay
For a comparable jug painted after Rudolf Vilde's design, see T.N. Nosovich and I.P. Popova, Gosudarstvennyi farforovyi zavod, 1904-1944, St Petersburg, 2005, p. 243.
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BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, LATE 1920S
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A LARGE SOVIET PORCELAIN JUG
BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, LATE 1920S
After the design by Zinaida Kobyletskaya, cylindrical with pointed spout, the body decorated with varicolour blooming flowerheads and foliage, inscribed in Russian 'We Shall Turn the Whole World into a Blossoming Garden' in black stylised script, the rim and handle gilt, marked under base with green hammer, sickle and cog
8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) high
BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, LATE 1920S
After the design by Zinaida Kobyletskaya, cylindrical with pointed spout, the body decorated with varicolour blooming flowerheads and foliage, inscribed in Russian 'We Shall Turn the Whole World into a Blossoming Garden' in black stylised script, the rim and handle gilt, marked under base with green hammer, sickle and cog
8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) high
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