a group of 16 lots of Russian plates from the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory will feature in Weschler’s March 3 Capital Collections auction in Washington.
All bar one have been consigned from the Eugenie T Rahim Trust. Rahim’s mother was Mary VR Thayer, a socialite and writer who travelled the world and met leaders of the Soviet Union, Saudi Arabia and India.
Her many career paths included being the society columnist for The Washington Post and one of the few western correspondents to work for Nelson Rockefeller during the Second World War. She reported directly from Eastern Europe right after the war and was accredited to the Potsdam conference. She was also a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserves and the first woman to ride in an Air Force jet trainer.