BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST. PETERSBURG, WITH OVERGLASE BLUE MARK OF HAMMER SICKLE AND COG, DATED 1919 AND WITH ORIGINAL IMPERIAL LABEL FROM THE STATE FACTORY

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A Soviet porcelain propaganda plate
by the State Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg, with overglase blue mark of hammer sickle and cog, dated 1919 and with original Imperial label from the State Factory
Circular, 'Land to the Workers', after Natan Altman's design of 1919, green ground, painted in red, the centre with a factory cradled in a wheat stalk and sickle wreath within a lozenge, the border inscribed with the slogan, marked under base
9½ in. (24 cm.) diam.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Sale room notice

Please note that the illustration for this lot, whilst correctly numbered, appears in the catalogue alongside the text for lot 119.

Lot Essay

See Christie's London, 10 July 1986, lot 207 and 13 December, 1995, lot 245 for further references.
Also N. Lobanov-Rostovsky, op. cit., p. 41.

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