Lot 109
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A Soviet propaganda porcelain plate
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A Soviet propaganda porcelain plate

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER III, 1892, WITH LATER STATE PORCELAIN BLUE OVERGLAZE MARK OF HAMMER, SICKLE AND COG, DATED 1924 AND NUMBERED 243/90

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A Soviet propaganda porcelain plate
by the Imperial Porcelain Factory, period of Alexander III, 1892, with later State Porcelain blue overglaze mark of hammer, sickle and cog, dated 1924 and numbered 243/90
Shaped circular, 'He who does not work does not eat', after a design by M. Adamovich of 1921, painted with ration cards, inscribed in Russian 'Lenin' beside a profile portrait, after Natan Al'tman, Cyrillic RSFSR and the red star printed over a fading half eagle, with the slogan inscribed irregularly around the border, marked under base
9¾ in. (24.9 cm.) diam.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

For a similar plate and further information see N. Lobanov-Rostovsky, Revolutionary Ceramics Soviet Porcelain 1917-1927, New York, 1990 pp. 32-3.

We are grateful to Nina Lobanov-Rostovsky for her assistance in cataloguing this and the following lots (110-127)

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