A large Soviet porcelain plate: "Peasant girl with vegetables", State Porcelain Manufactory, 1921

the cavetto with a peasant girl carry a large gourd painted against a rural background, the border decorated with carrots, beetroots and other root vegetables, with blue factory mark dated 1921 and green Imperial cypher for Nicholas II, partially obliterated

The plate is unsigned but the design is believed to have been composed by Yelizaveta Rozendorf, artist and theatre designer.  She studied under Chekhonin but worked in the Ministry of Agriculture and only painted part-time.  Her subjects tended to have a rural theme; other compositions included Fisherman, Potter and Men, Women, Pheasant, Peacock.