Russia: a Soviet porcelain propaganda platter, State Porcelain Factory, Petrograd, 1921

oval, the white body painted with red half-star, hammer and sickle in green and raspberry pink, inscribed ‘Russia’ in Cyrillic, surrounded with rye and leaves, with hammer, sickle and cog dated 1921 with obliterated Imperial cypher on the underside

length 26.8cm, 10 1/2in.