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A SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN PLATE 'THE RED GENIUS'
Lot 249

A SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN PLATE 'THE RED GENIUS'

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS II, 1912, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1921

Closed7 June 2021

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A SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN PLATE 'THE RED GENIUS'
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS II, 1912, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1921
After the design by Alisa Golenkina, circular, the centre painted with a red warrior on a winged red horse soaring across a gilt sunburst sky above the flames of the burning purple city below, within a black and red rim, inscribed in German 'We Will Inflame the World with the Fire of The Third International' within a red rim, marked under base with green underglaze Imperial Porcelain Factory mark and blue overglaze hammer, sickle and cog, and the date '1921'
9 1/8 in. (23.3 cm.) diameter

Specialist note

The Red Genius is, perhaps, one of the most famous designs by Alisa Golenkina. She reinterpreted an image of a rider with a torch on a winged horse, which was reproduced on a famous 1919 poster 'Proletariat of the World Unite' by a Russian political poster designer Alexander Apsit.

This design was also repeated with a Russian inscription on the border. A comparable plate with a Russian inscription was sold at Christie's, London, 3 June 2019, lot 381.