BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER III, 1889, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1920

Name: A SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN PLATE 'COMMUNE'
Brand: BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER III, 1889, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1920
Price: 16000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 20,000

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GBP 6,000 - GBP 8,000

Closed: 21 Jul 2020

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A SOVIET PROPAGANDA PORCELAIN PLATE 'COMMUNE'

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER III, 1889, AND THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1920

Price Realised GBP 20,000

Closed: 21 Jul 2020

Price Realised GBP 20,000

Closed: 21 Jul 2020

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After the design by Piotr Vychegzhanin, painted with a hammer and sickle surrounded by the Russian slogan 'Commune' in purple lettering and ears of wheat within a yellow rim, the border with green leaves with ears of wheat, all amongst red lightning arrows, marked under base with a masked Imperial Porcelain Factory mark and a blue overglaze hammer, sickle and cog, also dated '1920'
8³⁄₈ in. (21.4 cm.) diameter

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Lot Essay

This plate is offered by the descendants of Tallis Augustus Avis (1886-1966), whose collection of Important Soviet Porcelain was sold at Christie's, London, in June 2013.

'Gus' Avis was an active Socialist, who worked at County Hall as a local government officer and was secretary of The Union of International Authorities in London. In the early 1920s he attended a sale held to raise funds for Russia following the famine of 1921. It was there that he acquired the collection of Soviet porcelain. When Gus died in 1966 the collection was bequeathed to his two sons, Peter Avis (1929-2012), a journalist for and , and John Avis, an artist.

For a comparable plate, see N. Lobanov-Rostovsky, , New York, 1990, p. 72, no. 59.