Lot Essay
For a comparable plate, see N. Lobanov-Rostovsky, Revolutionary Ceramics Soviet Porcelain 1917-1927, London, 1990, p. 68, no. 51.
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BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS II, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1921
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A SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN PLATE
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS II, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1921
After the design by Rudolf Vilde, the centre painted with a hammer and sickle with ciselé gilt wheat and oak leaves, framed by a decorative wreath of varicolour flowers, the orange border inscribed in Russian 'Victory [of] the Workers / 25 October', within gilt rims, marked under base with masked Imperial Porcelain Factory mark and blue overglaze hammer, sickle and cog, and the date '1921', also impressed with numeral '9'
9 5/8 in. (24.5 cm.) diameter
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS II, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1921
After the design by Rudolf Vilde, the centre painted with a hammer and sickle with ciselé gilt wheat and oak leaves, framed by a decorative wreath of varicolour flowers, the orange border inscribed in Russian 'Victory [of] the Workers / 25 October', within gilt rims, marked under base with masked Imperial Porcelain Factory mark and blue overglaze hammer, sickle and cog, and the date '1921', also impressed with numeral '9'
9 5/8 in. (24.5 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Acquired by the family of the present owner prior to the 1930s.
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