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A RARE SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN PLATE
Lot 384 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE CANADIAN COLLECTION

A RARE SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN PLATE

BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1922

Closed5 June 2017

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GBP 16,250

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A RARE SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN PLATE
BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1922
After the design by Rudolf Vilde, inscribed in Russian 'Children of the Workers Bring Together Labour and Science', painted with two seated children reading among flowers, marked under base with green underglaze hammer, sickle and cog, numbered and dated in blue ‘1922 / N 456/3'

9¼ in. (23.6 cm.) diameter

Acquired by the mother of the present owner in Moscow in the 1950s.

Specialist note

For comparable plates, see T.N. Nosovich, I.P. Popova, Gosudarstvennyi Farforovyi Zavod, 1904-1944 [State Porcelain Factory, 1904-1944], St Petersburg, 2005, p. 247; and E. Sametskaya, Sovetskii Agitatsionyi Farfor, Moscow, 2004, p. 98, no. 18 [5].