A RARE SOVIET PORCELAIN PLATE
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A RARE SOVIET PORCELAIN PLATE

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER III, 1884, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1921

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A RARE SOVIET PORCELAIN PLATE
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER III, 1884, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1921
After the design by Vasiliy Timorev, circular, painted en grisaille with the portrait of Lev Kamenev, the border inscribed in Russian 'Long Live Soviet Power', and painted with wheat sheaves, hammer and sickle along the lower edge, marked under base with masked Imperial Porcelain factory mark, and a blue overglaze hammer, sickle and cog, and the date '1921.'
8 1⁄2 in. (21.5 cm.) diameter

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Lev Kamenev (1883-1936) was a prominent member of the Communist Party and Soviet government during the decade after the October Revolution of 1917. He became an opponent of Joseph Stalin and was executed during the Great Purge in 1936.

For a comparable plate with the portrait of Lev Kamenev, see Exhibition Catalogue, Soviet Ceramics, The Sandretti Collection of 20th century Russian Art, Formia, 2004, p. 32, no. 34.