A Soviet cabinet plate with portrait of Joseph Stalin...
A Soviet cabinet plate with portrait of Joseph Stalin
Dmitrovsk Manufactory, Verbilki, 1935
The plate with a sepia portrait of Joseph Stalin (Georgian, 1878-1953), with green stamped factory mark and with brown Cyrillic overglaze inscription in Russian 'work of A.A. Chekulina April 1935'.
Dia: 13 1/2 in.
PROVENANCE:
Ode to Joy Collection, Connecticut.
Exhibited
Hillwood Museum, no. 43; Pushkin Museum, nos. 164 and 165
Literature
Oda k Radosti/Ode to Joy, p. 394-395, illus. 324, cat. no. 161
Aleksandra Alekseevna Chekulina (1906-1986) started at the Dmitrovsk factory in 1931 and continued until retiring in 1961. She was the designer of several important services dedicated to Soviet achievements in the 1930s. The catalogue for the 1939 exhibition "The Industry of Socialism" lists several portraits by Chekulina after sketches by the artist Shugaev. Cf. "Ode to Joy", p.394.
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A Soviet cabinet plate with portrait of Joseph Stalin
Dmitrovsk Manufactory, Verbilki, 1935
The plate with a sepia portrait of Joseph Stalin (Georgian, 1878-1953), with green stamped factory mark and with brown Cyrillic overglaze inscription in Russian 'work of A.A. Chekulina April 1935'.
Dia: 13 1/2 in.
PROVENANCE:
Ode to Joy Collection, Connecticut.
Exhibited
Hillwood Museum, no. 43; Pushkin Museum, nos. 164 and 165
Literature
Oda k Radosti/Ode to Joy, p. 394-395, illus. 324, cat. no. 161
Aleksandra Alekseevna Chekulina (1906-1986) started at the Dmitrovsk factory in 1931 and continued until retiring in 1961. She was the designer of several important services dedicated to Soviet achievements in the 1930s. The catalogue for the 1939 exhibition "The Industry of Socialism" lists several portraits by Chekulina after sketches by the artist Shugaev. Cf. "Ode to Joy", p.394.
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