Bust of Lenin Inkstand, Lomonosov State Porcelain Manufactory, Leningrad, 1924

after a design by Natalia Danko, the lid inscribed 'Workers of the World, Unite', stamped dark green factory mark

Given to a Delegate of the Fifth Congress of the All-Russian Union of Chemical Workers by the Union's Leningrad Regional Commission, 1 December 1924

Pushkin Museum, no. 155

Oda k Radosti/Ode to Joy, p. 387, cat. no. 316; for comparison, see Nosovich and Popova, pp. 524-525.

Overall good condition; some small rubbing to inscriptions and one tiny chip to edge of lid
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NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."

Workers at the State Porcelain Factory, including Danko herself, were members of the Chemical Workers Union and many of her colleagues would have been delegates to the conference to whose members these inkwells were given.