Villeroy & Boch - Russian Fairy Tales - Maria Morevna and Tsarevich Ivan - Maria Morevna - collector's plate - Number 10 - 1983 original release edition.
Comes with original inner packaging, certificate and outer packaging.
Plate condition: Mint condition (see photos, you can supersize them all), no chips cracks or crazing.
Box condition: see photos.
Size (approx): 8 1/4 inch (21cm) diameter.
BD634
Boris Zworykin is celebrated as one of the most important of Russia's ornamental illustrators. The Russian Fairy Tales decorative plate collection, a series cycle produced from 1980-1983, is a wonderful tribute to his marvelous artistic gifts. Each plate is an individual masterpiece.
The edition was begun in 1980 with three scenes from the tale "The Snow Maiden". Subsequent annually-issued editions of three plates followed, based on "The Firebird" and "Vasilissa the Fair". The series closed in 1983 with "Maria Morevna".
The original illustrations, which are housed in the Metropolitan Museum at New York, were created 100 years ago, following Zworykin's emigration to Paris after the Russian Revolution.
Zworykin used gouache, a type of paint consisting of pigment suspended in water, that intensifies brilliance of colors. Production methods for hard-paste porcelain plates, to be faithful to the original pastel colors, use a high carat gold, making it possible, for example, to emphasize red and lilac shades from the original art. After firing is completed, at temperatures approaching 1500 F., the colors display a brilliance not often found on porcelain. The reason for this is that only one of each of the 28 different ceramic colors is applied before firing - a procedure that requires time, care, and precision. All plates made in Western Germany by Heinrich Porcelain Fabrik, one of Europe's most prestigious porcelain houses. Each plate is 8 1/4" diameter and issued with a special certificate, a decorative box and styrofoam box for storage.
These original plates have been out of production for years.
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