A Soviet Porcelain Platter "Land to Workers", State Porcelain Manufactory, Petrograd, 1919

after a design by Natan Altman, centered with a view of factory buildings flanked by a sickle and wheat sheaf within a red, diamond-shaped border, the border with the Russian slogan "Land to the Workers," with blue stamped factory mark in use from 1918-1919

the surface with rubbing and scratching to glazes; the reverse with small sections of the inner and outer foot with chips and nicks
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This bold design, based on Altman's decorations for Palace (then Uritsky) Square in Petrograd during the celebrations marking the first anniversary of the October Revolution in 1918, was produced in great quantities, sometimes as many as 121 in a month, and these modern examples of the Sovietization of Imperial culture were symbolically important diplomatic gifts. See Circling the Square, London, 2004, no. 7, p. 88.