A RARE SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN PLATTER

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23.11.2020 14:00UTC +01:00
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ID 435093
Lot 275 | A RARE SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN PLATTER
A RARE SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN PLATTER

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER III, 1893, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1921

After the design by Rudolf Vilde, painted by Ekaterina Yakimovskaya, the centre finely painted with a figure of an angel, with a stylised halo shaped as a red star, carrying a red banner inscribed in Russian 'To Save the Revolution To Help the Famine Victims', and holding a gilt hammer and sickle, flying above an industrial landscape, the cobalt blue border with a gilt inscription in Russian 'Workers of the World Unite', within gilt rims, marked under base with green underglaze Imperial Porcelain factory mark and blue overglaze hammer, sickle and cog, and the date '1921', also with Cyrillic initials 'EYa' for Ekaterina Yakimovskaya

14 1/8 in. (35.8 cm.) diameter

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