A SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN PLATE
Lot 363

A SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN PLATE

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER III, 1889, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1922

Closed6 June 2016

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GBP 15,000

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A SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN PLATE
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER III, 1889, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1922
Circular, the centre painted with the Red Star enclosing a hammer and hand plough after a design by Mikhail Adamovich, the gilt ciselé floral Cyrillic initials ‘RSFSR’, the outer cobalt blue border with ciselé gilt agricultural and architectural tools, within gilt rim and inner band, marked under base with green underglaze Imperial Porcelain Factory mark and blue overglaze State Porcelain Factory Jubilee mark of cog, V, hammer and sickle, and the date 1922
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) diameter

Specialist note

A comparable plate of this design was sold Christie’s, London, 30 November 2005, lot 113. For further information on the design and similar plates, see N. Lobanov-Rostovsky, Revolutionary Ceramics, New York, 1990, pp. 76-77.