A Soviet Porcelain Plate 'He Who Does Not Work Does Not Eat' after a design by Mikhail Adamovich (1884-1947), State Porcelain Factory, Petrograd, 1921 circular, with undulating rim, painted with a portrait of V.I. Lenin after a sketch by Natan Altman, half an Imperial Eagle, a red star and ration cards, inscribed 'RSFSR' and 'Lenin' in Cyrillic, the border with varicoloured slogan, marked on the underside with blue hammer, sickle and cog, dated 1921, and bearing exhibition label for E. Ekstein Ltd. & I.J. Mazure Ltd., 1987 diameter: 24.2 cm (9 1/2 in.) Footnotes: Provenance With E. Ekstein Ltd. & I.J. Mazure Ltd., circa 1987 (label on verso) Private collection, UK Exhibited London, E. Ekstein Ltd. & I.J. Mazure Ltd. (90 Jermyn St.), A Unique Exhibition of Russian Agitprop Porcelain Plates, 14 - 24 December 1987, no. 14 The plate with the slogan 'He Who Does Not Work Does Not Eat' is arguably one of the most recognised designs by Mikhail Adamovich. Created in 1921-1922, it was produced for several years while the original design underwent various alterations. For a similarly painted variant dated 1923 in the collection of The State Museum of Ceramics and Kuskovo Memorial Estate see postcard from the set Soviet Porcelain. State Museum of Ceramics and Kuskovo Memorial Estate XVIII century, 1971, collection of the Smolensk State Museum and Reserve, published in goskatalog.ru, no. 19936950. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com