SOVIET PORCELAIN CUP AND PLATE BY SUETIN

EARLY SOVIET PORCELAIN CUP WITH SAUCER, DULEVO PORCELAIN FACTORY, 1930s, form design by I.I. Rozhdestvenskaya based on the motifs of a suprematist painting by Nikolai Suetin, porcelain with overglaze painting, on the reverse side of the cup and saucer a green overglaze inscription "Made in the Soviet Union" inscribed in a triangle, height: 5.5 cm (2 1/8 inches). PROVENANCE: Alberto Sandretti Collection; Private collection, New York. EXHIBITION: Rovereto, "Soviet Ceramics: The Sandretti Collection of 20th Century Russian Art", December 11, 2004 - February 13, 2005. LITERATURE: "Soviet Ceramics: The Sandretti Collection of 20th Century Russian Art", exhibition catalogue at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, Palace Editions: Bad Breisig, 2004 (the present lot illustrated on page 53)