Russian Works of Art, Fabergé and Icons
Russian Works of Art, Fabergé and Icons
Auction Closed
December 2, 04:59 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
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.