RED STAR PLATE

Creator(s): Imperial Porcelain Factory (Manufacturer)

Currently in storage

About this object

In center on white ground is a red star outlined in gold and containing symbols of labor, a hammer and a plow. This was one of the earliest symbols of the Workers and Peasants Red Army, in which Adamovich served in 1919. Below is a cipher of the Russian Federation (Cyrillic initials RSFSR) in gold. Around the white area is a gold engraved band. The rim is in cobalt blue decorated with implements of labor in gold, a sickle and wheat, a fish net and a fish, measuring instruments, machine parts, a hammer and nails and a scythe.

Object name:

RED STAR PLATE

Made from:

Porcelain

Made in:

USSR: Petrograd

Date made:

1920

Size:

24.1 cm (9 1/2 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

25.490

Class:

CERAMICS

Signature marks:

MARK [crossed hammer and sickle and half of a gear] back date 1920 in overglaze in blue

Credit line:

Museum Purchase, 1971