A SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN PLATE
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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, 1921

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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, 1921
After the design by Rudolf Vilde, the centre painted with a cornucopia with books, a hammer and a sickle, and an inkwell, inscribed in Russian 'Here is a Book, Hammer, and Sickle for All Those Who are Brave and Young at Heart / St.[ate] Publish.[er]', marked under base with blue overglaze hammer, sickle and cog, dated ‘1921', and masked Imperial Porcelain Factory mark
9 ¾ in. (24.7 cm.) diameter

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For a comparable plate from the State Russian Museum, see the Exhibition catalogue, Rudolph Wilde (1868-1938), Porcelain, Glass, Graphics, St Petersburg, 2018, p. 149.