A Soviet Porcelain Plate 'The Swing', State Porcelain Manufactory, 1926

painted with four girls in colourful garments standing on a swing, a man playing a concertina on a hillside, the border painted with a butterfly within black and red rims, with green manufactory mark dated 1926 and red mark 'Made in Russia'

In good overall condition consistent with age.
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For a comparable example please see exhibition catalogue La rivoluzione in salotto. Porcellane sovietiche (1917-1930), Milano Electa,1988, p.60, illustration 73, listed as belonging to the State Historical Museum, Moscow.