the soup plate interior fully hand-painted with an image of the character of Muzhichok-s-Nogotok from Nikolai Nekrasov’s poem The Peasant Children depicted next to a sleigh-bound horse in a snowy landscape, diameter: 23.5 cm (9 ¼ in.), rubbed out Soviet porcelain mark on base, inscribed date 1924 and inventory number 745/3

PROVENANCE:
Sotheby's, London, June 12, 2008, lot 737