A SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN CUP AND SAUCER FROM THE 15 YEARS OF THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION SERVICE

A SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN CUP AND SAUCER FROM THE 15 YEARS OF THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION SERVICE
BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, LENINGRAD, CIRCA 1932
After the design by Mikhail Mokh, the cup painted with stylised cranes and inscribed in Russian '15 years of the October [Revolution]', within a burgundy and black rims, the saucer with a burgundy cavetto and a black rim of gridwork design, marked under bases with green underglaze hammer, sickle and cog
The cup, 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm.) high