POSSIBLY THE LOMONOSOV STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, CIRCA 1935

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A RUSSIAN PAINTED PORCELAIN 'INDUSTRY VERSUS AGRICULTURE' CHESS SET
POSSIBLY THE LOMONOSOV STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, CIRCA 1935
The black side representing factory workers, the bishops as towers, the knights as electricity, the rooks as water towers, the pawns as light bulbs, the white side as farm workers, the rooks modelled as silos and inscribed CHNOC, the pawns K.No.3, some restorations
The king -- 3in. (7.5cm.) high; the pawn -- 1.5cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The Lomonosov Porcelain Factory, located in St. Petersburg, was formerly known as the Imperial Factory until the October Revolution of 1917. The Danko sisters, Natalia and Yelena, designed two iconic chess sets during the early Soviet communist period in the 1920's, under the art directorship of Sergei Chekhonine. This modernist set is one example, also known as The Collective Farm and Town, and sits firmly within the political ethos of the time, celebrating both agricultural progress and the powers of modern industry. It was produced in limited numbers.
For a comparable example see The Art of Chess, The Gilbert Collection exhibtion catalogue, September 2003. Page 16 illustrates an example from the Polumbaum Collection, described as 'An early and extremely rare example'.

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