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A SOVIET PORCELAIN PROPAGANDA PLATE
WITH THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY (PERIOD OF NICHOLAS II) AND LATER BLUE OVERGLAZE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY MARK, DATED 1921 AND STYLISED CYRILLIC INITIALS AB
The centre painted with a shaded red star enclosing a hammer and a plough, within a border depicting the five points of a red star alternating with tools, a head of wheat, cogs and stylised Cyrillic initials 'A' and 'B' on shaded polychrome ground, after a design by Mikhail Adamovich, marked on the base
9½in. (24.3cm.) diam.
WITH THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY (PERIOD OF NICHOLAS II) AND LATER BLUE OVERGLAZE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY MARK, DATED 1921 AND STYLISED CYRILLIC INITIALS AB
The centre painted with a shaded red star enclosing a hammer and a plough, within a border depicting the five points of a red star alternating with tools, a head of wheat, cogs and stylised Cyrillic initials 'A' and 'B' on shaded polychrome ground, after a design by Mikhail Adamovich, marked on the base
9½in. (24.3cm.) diam.
Literature
Oxford, Museum of Modern Art, Art into Production, (1984), illus. p. 9 for a similar plate