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Covered vase «A Great Friendship» commemorating Mao Tse Dong’s state visit to Moscow in December 1949 and Sino-Soviet friendship
1950
With copy after Dmitriy Arkadievich Nalbandian (1906–1993), A Great Friendship, 1950, State Tretyakov Gallery
M.I. Krivoruchkova, painter
1950 or 1951
77.5 x 36.8 x 31.75 cm
Inscriptions: ‘Да живет вечно советско-китайская дружба’ [Long Live the Eternal Soviet-Chinese Friendship] in gilt letters on reverse of vase
Marks: underside, interior: ‘Барановка / Фарфоровый завод / М.И.Криворучкова’ [Baranovka / Farforovyi zavod / M.I. Krivoruchkova] in black overglaze; partially obscured stamped factory mark in dark green
cat. no. 340
Baranovka Porcelain Factory (1802 to date) founded by Mikhail Mezer on the estate of the Lubomirski-Walewski magnates, repeatedly passed hands until it was reorganized after the Russian revolution into a major production of commercial and art porcelain