The cup and saucer, painted with a Tsar wearing Monomakh's Cap and holding an orb and sceptre, and with a cityscape, both signed and dated under base in Cyrillic 'A. Shch. / 1923' and 'A. Stchekotichina / Potozky / 1924'; the small plate, after the design by Mikhail Adamovich, painted with a bouquet of flowers in a gold vase, against a black ground, marked under base with green underglaze factory mark and blue overglaze hammer, sickle and cog, and the date '1922', inscribed in Russian 'After the draw.[ing by] Adamovich', also numbered 'N=272.'; together with two cups and saucers by the Kuznetsov Factory, circa 1850s and 1894-1917, and one cup and saucer by the Dmitrovsky Factory, early 1930s
The small plate, 5³⁄₄ in. (14.6 cm.) diameter, and smaller

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For another plate by Alexandra Shchekotikhina-Pototskaya, painted with a comparable cityscape, see Exhibition catalogue, State Russian Museum, Aleksandra Shchekatikhina-Pototskaya 1892-1967, St Petersburg, 2009, p. 55, no. 48.