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Five Russian Revolutionary plates (© British Museum)
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Five Russian Revolutionary plates (© British Museum) Five Russian Revolutionary plates (© British Museum) Five Russian Revolutionary plates (© British Museum)

Five Russian Revolutionary plates

Artist: Various, Mikhail Mikhailovich Adamovich, Sergey Chekhonin

Location: British Museum

Date: 1921 - 1925

Materials: soft paste porcelain

Grant:

Amount Paid: £20,000 (Total: £81,000)

Vendor: I J Mazure & Company

Review number: 3553 (1991)

Provenance:
Adamovich plate from the collection of Sir Charles Richmond Brown. The other four from the collection of Ingor Pasborg, Copenhagen.

Description:
1) Mikhail Adamovich, 'Kapital', 1921; 2) Sergei Chekonin, 'A Komosol through Lenin's studies into the ranks of the Russian Communist Party (B) (for Bolshevik)' (main illustration), 1925; 3) Natalya Girschfeld, 'Petrograd 1921'; 4) Maria Lebedeva, 'A Genie', 1923; 5) Vasilii Timorev, 'From heroic military deeds to labour heroic deeds and from labour heroic...', 1920.

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