Soviets on the rise: Bolshevik propaganda plate bring demand at UK auctions
When the Bolshevik government took control of the Imperial Porcelain Factory following the October Revolution of 1917, large quantities of glazed but unpainted white hard-paste porcelain plates, cups and saucers remained at the site.
These imperial blanks, some of them decades old, were typically marked with a monogram of the tsar…