A Russian Revolutionary dish, signed Vasily Porfirjevich Timorev, 1923 (Тиморев Василий Порфирьевич (1870–1942)).
Tietoa ostamisesta
Lisätietoja ja kuntoraportit
Green overglaze factory mark of the Imperial porcelain manufactory, St Petersburg, period of Czar Nicholas II, 1914. Overglaze blue marks with the hammer and the sickle. Initial and the date 1923. Commemorativt motif with three men, one clad in a military unifrom, looking out over the city towards a commemotrative column with the dates 1917 and 1922. Diameter 36 cm.
Wear.
Alkuperä - Provenienssi
Swedish Private Collection.
Näyttelyt
Compare similar at the British Museum. Museum number
1990,0506.5.
See also 1990,0506.8 Associated dates : 1917-1925 (Russian Revolution).
Kirjallisuus
Text from J. Rudoe, 'Decorative Arts 1850-1950. A catalogue of the British Museum collection'. 2nd ed. no. 352 (appendix)
For two further large dishes by Timorev with commemorative subject-matter, see N. Lobanov-Rostovsky, 'Revolutionary Ceramics 1919-1927', New York 1990, pls 44 and 45. One of these also bears on the reverse the unidentified Cyrillic initials 'G.O' in overglaze blue and the letter 'N' with two strokes through it.