A Soviet porcelain decorative teapot "Dahlias" Dulevo Factory, Likino-Dulevo,...

A Soviet porcelain decorative teapot "Dahlias"

Dulevo Factory, Likino-Dulevo, 1970-1990

After a painted design by Vladimir Iasnetsov, stamped green factory mark and 2C in Cyrillic (vtoroi sort), numbered 1757.

H: 13 in.

PROVENANCE:

Ode to Joy Collection, Connecticut.

Literature
Oda k Radosti/Ode to Joy, p. 255, illus. 178, cat. no. 358; on this design and others by Iasnetsov, see also L. Andreeva, 'Vladimir Iasnetsov i russkii farfor dvukh poslednei desiatiletii', Sovetskoe dekorativnoe iskusstvo 5, 1982, pp. 175-182

This beautiful and exuberant work is among the last of the Soviet period productions by the Dulevo Porcelain Factory before the establishment of the Russian Federation in 1991.