Details
A SOVIET PORCELAIN PROPAGANDA PLATE
WITH MASKED UNDERGLAZE MARK OF THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY (PERIOD OF NICHOLAS I) AND LATER BLUE OVERGLAZE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY MARK, DATED 1921
Painted with the profile of Lenin, after N. Al'tman, the border designed with a red Cyrillic slogan 'Long Live Soviet Power' with a black border, and stylised factories between a wreath of wheat and a sickle, restored, marked on the base
9½in. (24cm.) diam.
WITH MASKED UNDERGLAZE MARK OF THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY (PERIOD OF NICHOLAS I) AND LATER BLUE OVERGLAZE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY MARK, DATED 1921
Painted with the profile of Lenin, after N. Al'tman, the border designed with a red Cyrillic slogan 'Long Live Soviet Power' with a black border, and stylised factories between a wreath of wheat and a sickle, restored, marked on the base
9½in. (24cm.) diam.
Literature
Lenin, drawings by Natan Al'tman, (St. Petersburg, 1921), illus. pl. VIII for a similar profile