A SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN PLATE 'THE SAILOR'S WALK'
Lot 252

A SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN PLATE 'THE SAILOR'S WALK'

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS II, 1905, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1921

Closed7 June 2021

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GBP 15,000–20,000

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A SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN PLATE 'THE SAILOR'S WALK'
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS II, 1905, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1921
After the design by Alexandra Shchekotikhina-Pototskaya, the centre painted with a sailor of the Baltic Fleet and his companion, with a cityscape and boats on Neva river to background, the rim with a gilt ciselé Russian inscription '1 May 1921 / Petrograd', marked under base with a partially erased Imperial Porcelain Factory mark and blue overglaze hammer, sickle and cog, and the date '1921.'
9 ¼ in. (23.4 cm.) diameter

Specialist note

For a comparable example of this plate, see T. Kudriavtseva, Circling the Square, London, 2004, p. 117, no. 99. Another comparable plate was sold at Christie's, London, 30 November 2005, lot 114.