RSFSR: A Soviet porcelain propaganda bowl, State Porcelain Factory, Petrograd, 1921

RSFSR: A Soviet porcelain propaganda bowl, State Porcelain Factory, Petrograd, 1921

After a design by Rudolf F. Vilde or Sergei V. Chekhonin, the sea green rim above a black frieze of stylised foliage, the body bearing twice on opposite sides the monogram in Cyrillic 'RSFSR' in purple, red and black, marked on the underside in blue underglaze with hammer, sickle and cog, 1921 and in green underglaze with IPF monogram for Nicholas II, 1909

diameter 17.7cm, 6 7/8 in.