Product Description
Snegurochka at the Court of Tsar Berendai). Just like their older and bigger cousins, these 6½" diameter fine porcelain plates were made in West Germany by Heinrich Porzellan, aka Villeroy and Boch. The colors of the originals, painted in 1916 by Boris Zworykin, were faithfully transferred on to fine porcelain and the edges were decorated with high-quality gold. The edition was limited to 21 firing days. Comes in the original box with informative pamphlet and COA. Plate is brand new with an attached hanger. Note: the plastic has yellowed and a sticker with a Russian crest is on the front top of the box (see pic). 1 only is available.
These plates traded on the success of the original limited edition of 1980-1983. This second series was limited to 21 firing days. At the same time they were produced and marketed, the first plates from Russia, by Bradford Exchange, came out and triggered a massive Russian plate collecting boom. And thus this series got lost in the shuffle, and probably never achieved a big production as promised by the 21 firing days.
Boris Zworykin (1872-1942) is celebrated as one of the most important of Russia's ornamental illustrators. The original illustrations, which are housed in the Metropolitan Museum at New York, were created over 100 years ago, following Zworykin's emigration to Paris after the Russian Revolution. He used gouache, a type of paint consisting of pigment suspended in water, that intensifies brilliance of colors.
