SOVIET PORCELAIN PROPAGANDA PLATE ‘MOTHERHOOD’
Lotto 170
30 00050 000
Designed by Shchekatikhina-Pototskaya (1920), painted
by M. P. Kirillova, State Porcelain Factory, painted
in 1923
Blank of the Imperial Porcelain Factory. 1908.
Porcelain, polychromatic overglaze painting, gilding in
matte and burnished gold
Marks: stencilled green underglaze mark ‘H II’ for Nicholas
II under a crown and date – 1908; hand painted
black overglaze marks: hammer, sickle, and cog; inscribed
in Cyrillic and numbered 5; dated 1918–1923;
painter’s signature in Cyrillic ‘after the design of A.
Shchekatikhina’, monogram: ‘M.K‘, production mark:
554 / 7 .
Diameter – 26 cm