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A SOVIET RUSSIAN PORCELAIN PROPAGANDA PLATE, dated 1922, by the State Porcelain Factory in Petrograd, after a design by Sergei Vasilievich Chekhonin (1878-1936), the centre painted with a sheaf of wheat and various farming tools including a sickle, a scythe, a rake and a pitchfork, all within a puce star surrounded by stylised fruiting plants, the rim inscribed ??? ?? ? ????, ??? ?????? ??? (He who is not with us, is against us) in Cyrillic with scattered leaves, puce-line rim, 24cm diameter, overglaze blue State Porcelain mark of hammer, sickle and cog dated 1922 FOOTNOTES: Chekhonin was appointed director of the Sate Porcelain Factory (formerly the Imperial Porcelain Factory) in 1918. Propaganda plates with identical inscriptions and very similar leaf decoration to the rim have been sold by Sotheby's New York, 17 April 2012, lot 144, and 8 April 2014, lot 160. Another was sold by Lempertz, Cologne, 2 May 2015, lot 305, and a further example can be found in the Museum of Political History of Russia in St. Petersburg. All of these examples, however, have plain centres, and it is particularly unusual to find one decorated in this way. See also the Soviet propaganda plate decorated after a design by Chekhonin sold in these rooms, 11 October 2016, lot 226.