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Victory of the Workers: a Soviet porcelain propaganda plate, State Porcelain Factory, Petrograd, 1921

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December 2, 04:59 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 GBP

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Victory of the Workers: a Soviet porcelain propaganda plate, State Porcelain Factory, Petrograd, 1921


after a design by Veniamin Belkin, circular, the cavetto painted with a dramatic city view and inscribed ‘October 1917’ in Cyrillic, the border inscribed with the logo and painted with workers’ tools within orange borders, with hammer, sickle and cog dated 1920 on the underside

diameter 23.5cm, 9¼ in.

For further information, please see T. Nosovich, I. Popova, Gosudarstvenniy Farforoviy Zavod, St Petersburg, 2005, p. 279.