For a similar plate see exhibition catalogue Première Année, Salon de 1879, Paris, Palais des Champs-Elysées, 1879, no. 4395.
Similar plates were sold in Tableaux, études, Dessins du Peintre Ivan Pokitonow, Collection de Madame E. de W. et Monsieur B. Wulfert-Pokitonow, Salle des Chiroux, Liège, 17 November, 1925
Our thanks to Tamara Préaud, head archivist at the Manufacture de Sèvres, and Olivier Bertrand, the author of forthcoming catalogue raisonné on Pokhitonov, for their asistance in researching this lot.