After the design by Nadezhda Kulikova, inscribed in German 'He who does not work, should not eat', among ciselé gilt foliage, garlands and fruit, all within a red scalloped and gilt rim, marked under base with green underglaze Imperial Porcelain Factory mark and blue overglaze hammer, sickle and cog, and the date '1920'
21¹⁄₂ in. (54.7 cm.) wide

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This rare platter is one of the early Soviet propaganda works that have inscriptions in German. There was a large appetite for Russian avant-garde design in Europe in the early 1920s. The newly established State Porcelain Factory produced a number of porcelain pieces for export, some of which were decorated with slogans and quotes in German, the language of Karl Marx and other famous revolutionaries.