Communist Enlightenment, Economic Revival: a Soviet porcelain propaganda plate, after a design by Rudolf Vilde, State Porcelain Manufactory, Petrograd, 1920

the cavetto painted with multicoloured lettering reading 'Коммунистическое просвещение экономическое возрождение' ('Communist enlightenment, economic revival'), the border painted with books, hammers, sickles, axes, oak leaves and wheat sheafs in green and black, marked on the reverse with blue factory mark, dated

diameter 24.8cm; 9 3/4 in.