ANTIQUE RUSSIAN PORCELAIN PLATE KUSNETSOV, 19th CENTURY

ANTIQUE RUSSIAN PORCELAIN PLATE KUSNETSOV, 19th CENTURY
RARE ANTIQUE RUSSIAN PORCELAIN PLATE KUSNETSOV, 19th CENTURY, HAND PAINTED
Antique 19th Century Porcelain Cabinet Plate by M.C. Kuznetsov Factory.
Featuring Countryman and Russian Village. Marked in Verso with Factory Mark.
CONDITION: The item is described to the best of our knowledge. Please refer to pictures and email with any questions.
SIZE: 9.75 inches (25 cm).
ESTIMATE PRICE: $2000 - $2500.
HISTORY of SALES: A few years ago the plates made by M.C. Kuznetsov Factory were sold on Live Auctioneer for for $5500, $7500 and $12000 - please see the screenshots.
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HISTORY: In 1832, the merchant Terenty Kuznetsov, who knew the secrets of porcelain making, decided to start a business of his own and built a small factory with six burning forges on wasteland in Dulyovo located a short distance from Moscow. Dulyovo porcelain was known for its noble whiteness combined with gilding and bright painting. The painting was done by hand by simple female workers who were all called Agafya for some unknown reason, which is why their products came to be known as "agashkas.” All the factories owned by the Kuznetsov family (located not only in the Moscow and Vladimir provinces but in Riga, Volkhov and other cities as well), had modern equipment and highly skilled workers and artists. When cheap foreign machine-made products began competing with the Kuznetsov porcelain, the Partnership immediately mechanized their manufacturing units, began using decal transfer paper and stencils, and introduced a new product-figurines. The traditional painting by hand remained, as earlier, their specialty, however. The Partnership gave grants to their students at the Stroganov School and the school sponsored by the Society for the Encouragement of Artists. Thus, the Kuznetssov factories happily combined machine-done painting with traditional hand-made bright "agashkas.” In 1918, the Kuznetsov factories were nationalized. Unlike the former Imperial Factory that underwent a series of painful breakups and renovations, they (being mass production facilities) only went through a short period of doing "production art” during that craze and then returned to their traditional folk-art designs.