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A SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN PLATE
Lot 356

A SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN PLATE

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS II, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1919

Closed26 November 2018

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A SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN PLATE
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS II, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1919
After the design by Vladimir Lebedev, the centre painted with a stylised sickle and wheat stalk and Russian inscription ‘Pravda’ [Truth] on an abstract composition in brown, black and green, within a black and gilt border, marked under base with masked Imperial Porcelain Factory mark and blue overglaze hammer, sickle and cog, and the date '1919'
9½ in. (24.1 cm.) diameter

Specialist note

It appears that the present design by Vladimir Lebedev predates a similar plate design in brown and black colours. A comparable plate, dated 1922, was sold Christie's, London, 30 November 2005, lot 111. For another similar plate, see S. Abramov, Sovetskiy Farfor [Soviet Porcelain], Moscow, 1927, p. 25.