AN EARLY SOVIET COMMEMORATIVE PLATE FOR THE SEVENTH-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE SOVIET UNION, DULEVO PORCELAIN MANUFACTORY, 1929

AN EARLY SOVIET COMMEMORATIVE PLATE FOR THE SEVENTH-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE SOVIET UNION, DULEVO PORCELAIN MANUFACTORY, 1929based on the 5-year Anniversary Kremlin service made to commemorate the revolution, the raspberry-colored border with mordant gilded CCCP punctuated by a laurel-wreathed VII and a star with the hammer and sickle, the white cavetto with a gilded hammer and sickle encapsulating a view of the Moscow Kremlin in black, the rim with a gilded laurel-wreath, diameter: 23.3 cm (9 1/4 in.), blue factory mark and an impressed 6 on base, additionally numbered 446PROVENANCE:Sotheby's, London, June 12, 2008, lot 739