A large Soviet vase, State Porcelain Factory, Leningrad, 1928

 A large Soviet vase, State Porcelain Factory, Leningrad, 1928

of tapering cylindrical form, painted with an arctic scene to illustrate the Soviet rescue mission for the survivors of the crash of the airship Italia, inscribed in the interior rim in Cyrillic 'exec.[uted] by Bolshakov, after a design by Vilde', marked under the base with blue sickle hammer and cog

height 49.5cm; 19½in.