A SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN PLATE 'THE RED GENIUS'

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS II, 1895, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1920

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A SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN PLATE 'THE RED GENIUS'
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS II, 1895, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1920
After the design by Alisa Golenkina, circular, the centre painted with a red warrior on a winged red horse soaring across a gilt sunburst sky above the flames of the burning purple city below, within a black and red rim, the border painted with a red ribbon centring a gilt hammer and sickle on orange ground, inscribed in Russian 'We Will Inflame the World with the Fire of The Third International' within a red rim, marked under base with green underglaze factory mark and blue overglaze hammer, sickle and cog, and the date '1920'
9 ¼ in. (23.4 cm.) diameter

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Lot Essay

The Red Genius is, perhaps, one of the most famous designs by Alisa Golenkina. She reinterpreted an image of a rider with a torch on a winged horse, which was reproduced on a famous poster of 1919 Proletariat of the World Unite by a Russian political poster designer Alexander Apsit. This design was also repeated with a German inscription on border. For a comparable plate, see T. Kudriavtseva, Circling the Square, London, 2004, p. 100, no. 41.

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