SOVIET PORCELAIN PROPAGANDA PLATE: ‘LONG LIVE THE POWER OF THE SOVIETS’ State Porcelain Factory, 1920

Porcelain, polychrome overglaze painting Marks: mark of the pre-revolutionary period covered by a green diamond, blue overglaze mark: hammer, sickle, cog, and date – 1920 Decorated with a red star and the slogan ‘Da zdravstvuyet vlast Sovetov’ [‘Long live the power of the Soviets’] D. We would like to thank Vladimir Levshenkov, specially invited porcelain expert, for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.