A Soviet porcelain plate: 'Flowers and Fruits', Sergei Chekhonin, State Porcelain Manufactory, 1921

after a design by the artist, centred with a gilt hammer, sickle and cog within a black circular cartouche, surrounded by exotic flowers and fruits and brightly coloured leaf border, with manufactory mark dated 1921 and Imperial cypher for Nicholas II obliterated by a painted green oval

the black paint is a little worn throughout, otherwise in apparently good condition
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According to Lydia Andreeva, the hammer and sickle on the prototype for this plate was the first portrayal of the Soviet emblem on porcelain.