RUSSIA Pair of porcelain dinner plates from the "Three Roses" service, the marli with polychrome and gold decoration of a basket of three roses, flowers and foliage, gold fillet on the rim. Based on a model by Sergei Chekhonin (1878-1936). Nicolas II period porcelain, 1896 and 1912, with green stamp mark. Later decoration by the State Porcelain Manufactory, Petrograd, 1922. Sickle, hammer and cog marks painted in blue. Numbered "297/132" and "297/149". Diameter: 23.5 cm. Chips on reverse of one. Literature: For pieces of the same service see T.N. Nosovich, I.P. Popova, "Gosudarstvennyi Farforovyi Zavod 1904-1944", 2005, pp. 214-215-216.