A SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN PLATTER
Lot 383

A SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN PLATTER

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS II, 1904, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, LENINGRAD, 1925

Closed3 June 2019

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GBP 60,000

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A SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN PLATTER
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS II, 1904, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, LENINGRAD, 1925
Probably after a design by Sergei Chekhonin, circular, the centre painted with the red Communist flag with Cyrillic abbreviation 'KIM' inside a star within a ciselé gilt circle, surrounded by the Cyrillic inscription 'USSR' amongst foliate design within a gilt and red rim, the border inscribed 'A Komsomol Member through Lenin's Studies into the Ranks of the R.C.P. (b.)' within a gilt rim, marked under base with a green underglaze factory mark and a blue overglaze hammer, sickle and cog, and the date '1925'
11 7/8 in. (30.1 cm.) diameter

Specialist note

For a comparable platter, see E. Sametskaya, Sovetskii Agitatsionyi Farfor, Moscow, 2004, p. 403, no. 6 [6].