Soviet propaganda porcelain plate makes over 100-times estimate in Stratford-upon-Avon
When, following the October Revolution of 1917, the Bolshevik government took control of the Imperial Porcelain Factory, 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…