2 December 2015 Russian Art Auctions
2 December 2015
218.
A Soviet Porcelain Plate "Woman with a Demon"
5,000-7,000 GBP
AFTER A DESIGN BY SERGEY CHEKHONIN, LOMONOSOV STATE PORCELAIN MANUFACTORY, LENINGRAD, 1922
Diameter 23 cm.
Related literature: For a similar work, see T.N. Nosovich, I.P. Popova, Gosudarstvenny farforovy zavod. 1904–1944, St Petersburg, Orchestr, p. 219.
Circular, the cavetto painted with a reclining nude caressing a monkey-like creature surrounded by lush vegetation within a black band and royal blue border within gold rims, with blue overglaze manufactory marks and green Imperial cypher for Alexander III, further signed in Cyrillic “po ris. Chekhonina”.
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