the center hand-painted with an image of Triton holding a fruit-filled cornucopia based on a drawing by Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, the lightly scalloped rim decorated with concentric circles of purple, black, and yellow, diameter: 26.8 cm (10 ¬Ω in.), underglazed green Imperial Cypher of Nicholas II dated 1912 on base, additional blue Soviet manufactory mark dated 1922, also marked with blue initials of Maria Kirilova, No 295/6, and inscribed in Cyrillic po ris. Dobuzhinskogo on base

PROVENANCE:
Sotheby's, London, June 12, 2008, lot 736