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Flowers and Fruits: A Soviet porcelain propaganda plate, State Porcelain Factory, Petrograd, 1921
Flowers and Fruits: A Soviet porcelain propaganda plate, State Porcelain Factory, Petrograd, 1921
after a design by Sergei Chekhonin, centred with a gilt hammer, sickle and cog within a black circle, surrounded by varicoloured flowers and fruits, the black border with plum-coloured rim painted with pastel purple, green and orange leaves, marked on the underside with blue hammer, sickle and cog dated 1921, with obliterated Imperial cypher
diameter 23.2cm, 9 1/5in.
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For further information, please see Nosovich, I. Popova, Gosudarstvenniy Farforoviy Zavod, St Petersburg, 2005, p. 217 and N. Lobanov-Rostovsky, Revolutionary Ceramics: Soviet Porcelain 1917-1927, London, 1990, no. 68, p. 79.