We will ignite the whole world with the fire of the Third International (Red Genius): a Soviet porcelain propaganda plate, painted by Golenkina after a design Apsitis, State Porcelain Factory, Petrograd, 1922

Property from a Private European Collection

We will ignite the whole world with the fire of the Third International (Red Genius): a Soviet porcelain propaganda plate, painted by Golenkina after a design Apsitis, State Porcelain Factory,

Petrograd, 1922

the border round with the inscription 'We will ignite the whole world with the fire of the Third International'in Cyrillic within painted red edges; the cavetto painted with a scene depicting a torch-bearing figure on a winged horse flying over collapsing antiquities ablaze, the reverse marked with Imperial Porcelain Factory monogram of Nicholas II dated 1907 in green and with the State Porcelain Factory mark in blue dated 1922

diameter 23.5cm; 9¼in.