BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST. PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS II, 1905, WITH LATER BLUE OVERGLAZE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY MARK OF HAMMER, SICKLE AND COG

Elements for the design of this plate can be seen in Diagonal Movement by Nikolai Suetin, dating from 1923 and painted on the Narkompros service following the form designed by Sergei Chekhonin, which is held in the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory Museum, St. Petersburg, no.2966. (Exhibition catalogue, Circling the Square, 2004, p.119, no.105.)