Lot 171

A SOVIET PROPAGANDA CUP AND SAUCER 'LENIN AND RED STAR', the deep bowl painted with a portrait of Lenin, after a drawing by N. Altman, marching soldiers, the date 25 October 1917, a Hammer and Sickle and a large Red Star, the saucer with similar design, after a design by M.Adamovich, the saucer by The Imperial Poreclain Factory (period of Nicholas II) with later blue overglaze State Porcelain Factory marks and 1922, No 3, the saucer with green mark of The State Porcelain Factory, dated in blue 23 No 3

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GBP 880

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A SOVIET PROPAGANDA CUP AND SAUCER 'LENIN AND RED STAR', the deep bowl painted with a portrait of Lenin, after a drawing by N. Altman, marching soldiers, the date 25 October 1917, a Hammer and Sickle and a large Red Star, the saucer with similar design, after a design by M.Adamovich, the saucer by The Imperial Poreclain Factory (period of Nicholas II) with later blue overglaze State Porcelain Factory marks and 1922, No 3, the saucer with green mark of The State Porcelain Factory, dated in blue 23 No 3
6 1/8in. (15.7cm.) diam.

Specialist note

See N. Lobanov-Rostovski, Revolutionary Ceramics (New York, 1990) p.6 for similar cup and saucer