SOVIET SUETIN PORCELAIN CUP AND PLATE

AN EARLY SOVIET PORCELAIN CUP AND SAUCER, DULEVO PORCELAIN FACTORY, 1930S, the mould arrangement by I.I. Rozhdestvenskaya after the suprematist painting by Nikolai Suetin, the porcelain with overglaze painting, the backs of the cup and saucersmarked in green overglaze 'Made in Soviet Union' inscribed in a triangle, height: 5.5 cm. (2 1/ 8 in.). PROVENANCE: Collection of Alberto Sandretti; Private Collection, New York. EXHIBITED: Rovereto, "Soviet Ceramics: The Sandretti Collection of 20th Century Russian Art," December 11, 2004 - Feburary 13, 2005. LITERATURE: "Soviet Ceramics: The Sandretti Collection of 20th Century Russian Art," a catalogue of the exhibition at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, Palace Editions: Bad Breisig, 2004 (the present lot illustrated on page 53)