Lot Essay
See footnote to lot 244.
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A SOVIET PORCELAIN PROPAGANDA PLATE, 'THE RUSSIAN AND THE GERMAN, PROLETARIANS OF ALL NATIONS UNITE'
BY THE LOMONOSOV PORCELAIN FACTORY WITH THE OVERGLAZE MARK 'MADE IN THE USSR'
Painted with a Russian worker on the left side wearing a red blouse and cap and a German worker on the right side smoking a pipe and wearing a hat, within a colourful background including stylised gold ciselé flowers and the slogan in German 'Proletarians of All Nations Unite' and the date '1921', with a stylised sun above, after a design by Aleksandra Shchekotikhina-Pototskaia, marked on the base
9¾in. (24.9cm.) diam.
BY THE LOMONOSOV PORCELAIN FACTORY WITH THE OVERGLAZE MARK 'MADE IN THE USSR'
Painted with a Russian worker on the left side wearing a red blouse and cap and a German worker on the right side smoking a pipe and wearing a hat, within a colourful background including stylised gold ciselé flowers and the slogan in German 'Proletarians of All Nations Unite' and the date '1921', with a stylised sun above, after a design by Aleksandra Shchekotikhina-Pototskaia, marked on the base
9¾in. (24.9cm.) diam.
Literature
E. Gollerbakh, M. Farmakovskii, Russian Artistic Porcelain, (Leningrad, 1924), p. 60, illus. opp. p. 120; for a similar dish
A. K. Lanceray, Soviet Porcelain, (Leningrad, 1974), pl. 5
L. Andreeva, Soviet Porcelain, (Moscow, 1975), illus. p. 160; for similar plates
A. K. Lanceray, Soviet Porcelain, (Leningrad, 1974), pl. 5
L. Andreeva, Soviet Porcelain, (Moscow, 1975), illus. p. 160; for similar plates