A porcelain plate decorated with an iron-red depiction of a Soviet night watch. - image-1
A porcelain plate decorated with an iron-red depiction of a Soviet night watch. - image-2
A porcelain plate decorated with an iron-red depiction of a Soviet night watch. - image-1A porcelain plate decorated with an iron-red depiction of a Soviet night watch. - image-2

Lot 307 Dα

A porcelain plate decorated with an iron-red depiction of a Soviet night watch.

Auction 1047 - overview Cologne
02.05.2015, 15:00 - Soviet Porcelain
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 32.240 € (incl. premium)
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A porcelain plate decorated with an iron-red depiction of a Soviet night watch.

With a green stamped hammer, sickle and cog mark. With localised losses to the decor.
SPM Petrograd or Leningrad, 1920s, probably after a motif by M.M. Adamovich.

Literature

Cf. Lobanov-Rostovsky, Revolutionskeramik 1917-1927, London/Basel 1990, no. 9, an example dated 1921 with a reversed depiction of the motif. The author describes the motif as a depiction of a sentry guarding grain during the great famine of 1921.