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A Large Soviet Porcelain Propaganda Platter: Autographs of the Participants of the Great Russian October Revolution, State Porcelain Factory, Petrograd
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- the base of the cavetto inscribed "po Chekhoninu"; with blue overglaze factory mark, also with green Imperial cypher of Nicholas II dated 1900
- porcelain
- Length 18 1/4 in.
- 46.4 cm
after a design by Sergei Vasilievich Chekhonin (1878-1936), oval, under a radiating, red sun inscribed 1917 is the Russian phrase "Autographs of the Participants of the Great Russian October Revolution," above a hammer and sickle encircling the globe, the edge of the cavetto with a red ribbon, on the border, between green leaves, are the facsimile signatures of (clockwise from the top) K. Eremeev, A. Riazanov, N. Krestinsky, A. Lunacharsky, V. Ulyanov (Lenin), G. Chicherin, Kollontai, Vlad. Bonch-Bruevich, S. Gusev, S. Zorin, A. Enukidze, V. Yakovleva, V. Volodarsky, G. Zinoviev, L. Trotsky, M. Uritsky, and Podbelsky, with gilded rim
Condition
some rubbing to painting at the edge of the cavetto and small losses
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NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
This large and unusual platter is of great interest not only as an example of Sergei Chekhonin's skill as a graphic designer, but also for its great rarity. Perhaps because it gave equal precedence to many Soviet leaders who were later repressed (including Trotsky and Zinoviev) and did not include Stalin among the autographs of the "architects" of the revolution, it was not preserved in Russian museum collections. The date of the design remains to be established. Most of the extant copies were probably sold through the export exhibitions of the 1920s. For other editions, see N. Lobanov-Rostovsky, Revolutionary Ceramics, New York, 1990, pp. 44-45 and T. Nosovich and I. Popova, Gosudarstvennyi farforovyi zavod, 1904-1944, St. Petersburg, 2005, p. 231.