based 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 ¼ in.), blue factory mark and an impressed 6 on base, additionally numbered 446

PROVENANCE:
Sotheby's, London, June 12, 2008, lot 739