BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1922

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A RARE SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN PLATE
BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1922
After the design by Rudolf Vilde, inscribed in Russian 'Children of the Workers Bring Together Labour and Science', painted with two seated children reading among flowers, marked under base with green underglaze hammer, sickle and cog, numbered and dated in blue ‘1922 / N 456/3'

9¼ in. (23.6 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Acquired by the mother of the present owner in Moscow in the 1950s.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

For comparable plates, see T.N. Nosovich, I.P. Popova, Gosudarstvennyi Farforovyi Zavod, 1904-1944 [State Porcelain Factory, 1904-1944], St Petersburg, 2005, p. 247; and E. Sametskaya, Sovetskii Agitatsionyi Farfor, Moscow, 2004, p. 98, no. 18 [5].

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