After the design by Sergei Chekhonin, painted with hammer, sickle and cog on white ground, with ciselé gilt details and rim, the border with varicolour geometric shapes, marked under base with masked Imperial Porcelain Factory mark and blue overglaze hammer, sickle and cog, and the date '1921'
9³⁄₈ in. (23.8 cm.) diameter

Property Offered by the Descendants of Tallis Augustus Avis; Christie's, London, 21 July 2020, lot 19.

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This plate was once part of the collection of Tallis Augustus Avis (1886–1966), a London-based local government officer and an active Socialist. In the early 1920s, he attended a fundraising sale held to support Soviet Russia in the aftermath of the 1921 famine. It was at this event that he acquired a significant collection of Soviet porcelain, parts of which were later sold at Christie’s, London, in 2013 and 2020.

For a comparable plate, see N. Lobanov-Rostovsky, Revolutionary Ceramics Soviet Porcelain 1917-1927, London, 1990, pp. 78-79, no. 67.