A Soviet porcelain plate, Vkhutemas Kerfak, Moscow, 1921

after a design by Oganes Tatevosyan, the cavetto painted with a figure in Turkik costume kneeling beside a red hammer and sickle, cradling an orange banner inscribed in Arabic 'Workers of the World Unite', the blue border inscribed and dated 'In commemoration of the Third International Congress, 1921' within painted roundels celebrating Soviet ideals, with overglaze factory mark

Very good condition. Three of four small areas of wear along the rim, which has been re-gilt.
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VKhuTEMAS is an abbreviation and acronym for 'Advanced State Industrial Art Studio' (Vysshie Gosudarstvennie Khudozhestvenno-Tekhnicheskie Masterskie), which was an experimental ceramic studio established at the Dulevo Porcelain Factory.  Tatevosyan was a leading ceramicist of the studio responsible for designing a series of sculptures and plates commemorating the opening of the Third Congress of the Communist International in 1921.

For another example, please see Sotheby's London, 12 June 2008, lot 741, and for a tea cup and saucer of similar design by Tatevosyan, please see N. Lobanov-Rostovsky, Revolutionary Ceramics: Soviet Porcelain 1917-1927, London, 1990, no. 43, p. 63.