A RARE SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN PLATTER 'SOVNARKOM', BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1921

After the design by Bossilka Radonitch, circular, the centre painted with a gilt ciselé cornucopia of flowers, each flower inscribed in Russian with names of Soviet government bodies, the largest flower shaped as a red star and inscribed 'Sovnarkom' [Council of People's Commissars], all within a grey border inscribed 'Russ.[ian] Soc.[ialist] Fed.[erative] Sov.[iet] Rep.[ublic]', marked under base with blue hammer, sickle and cog, also signed with Cyrillic initial 'B.' and dated '1921'
137⁄8 in. (35.2 cm.) diameter

Please note this lot is the property of a private individual.

Provenance

Acquired by Ella Henrietta Preston (1889-1989), wife of Thomas Preston (1886-1976), the British Consul in Leningrad between 1922 and 1926.
By descent to the present owner.