Lot number 24 - Auction 142
SELTENE SOWJET-PROPAGANDA-TASSE MIT UNTERTASSE

SERGEY VASIL´EVICH CHEKHONIN 1878 Valdayka - 1936 Lörrach A VERY RARE SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN CUP WITH SAUCER Soviet Union, Petrograd, State Porcelain Factory, M.P. Kirillova (execution), circa 1922 Painted with gilt reserves. Underglaze green factory mark with hammer and sickle, signed 'After design of S.V.Chekhonin. MK.' in black overglaze. The service form, designed by the artist S.V. Chekhonin, was intended for the Soviet embassy in Berlin and was therefore not executed in mass production. Diam. 7.1/14.3 cm.