A SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN PLATE

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1921

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A SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN PLATE
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1921
Circular, the centre painted in brown with a view of a factory and inscribed in Russian 'Glory to you, Workers! / Praise you, Work! / Honour Working Hands / Honour and Glory a Drop of Sweat!', the border painted with a hammer, sickle and a wheat stalk and inscribed in Russian 'Long Live the United Working Family of All Nations', within blue rims, marked under base with masked Imperial Porcelain Factory mark and blue overglaze hammer, sickle and cog, and the date '1921.'
9 ¾ in. (24.7 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Acquired by the present owner from Fischer Fine Art Gallery in the early 1970s.

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Lot Essay

The State Porcelain Factory archives indicate that a plate titled 'A Working Quarter' was produced in 1921 in one copy. It is possible that this is a record for the present plate.
We are grateful to Vladimir Levshenkov for his assistance with the research of the present lot.

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