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