A SOVIET PORCELAIN PROPAGANDA PLATE, painted in colours, the centre painted with an opened book inscribed in cyrillic, History of the October revolution 1917, amongst foliage, a hammer, a sickle and a newspaper entitled Pravda, after a design by Zinaida Kobilevskaia (some gilt fading), with underglaze green mark of the Imperial Porcelain Factory, 1913 (period of Nicholas II) and later overglaze green State Porcelain factory mark, dated 1922

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A SOVIET PORCELAIN PROPAGANDA PLATE, painted in colours, the centre painted with an opened book inscribed in cyrillic, History of the October revolution 1917, amongst foliage, a hammer, a sickle and a newspaper entitled Pravda, after a design by Zinaida Kobilevskaia (some gilt fading), with underglaze green mark of the Imperial Porcelain Factory, 1913 (period of Nicholas II) and later overglaze green State Porcelain factory mark, dated 1922
23.5 cm diam.

Lot Essay

Cf N. Lobanov-Rostovsky, revolutionary Ceramics, p. 52 ill. 26
B. Alekseev, Soviet Artistic Porcelain, p. 25 for similar plates.

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