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A SOVIET PORCELAIN PROPAGANDA PLATE
Lot 380

A SOVIET PORCELAIN PROPAGANDA PLATE

BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, 1921

Fermé24 November 2014

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GBP 7,500

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A SOVIET PORCELAIN PROPAGANDA PLATE
BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, 1921
Circular, with scalloped rim, the center painted with an open book titled 'History of The October Revolution 1917', the opposite page inscribed 'Petersburg 1921', atop a pile of books and a newspaper, amidst sprays of leaves and a gilt hammer and sickle, within a gilt cavetto band, marked under base with overglaze blue hammer and sickle and masked Imperial Porcelain Factory mark
8¾ in. (22.5 cm.) diameter

Anonymous Sale; Christie’s, New York, 18 April 2008, lot 246.

Note du spécialiste

For a similar plate, see N. Lobanov-Rostovsky, Revolutionary Ceramics, New York, 1990, p. 52, no. 26, and E. Sametskaya, Sovetskii Agitatsionyi Farfor, Moscow, 2004, p. 198, no. 2.