A COMPLETE SOVIET PORCELAIN CHESS SET OF 32 PIECES

Description:

State Porcelain Factory, Leningrad, circa 1925/28
H. 5,9 cm - 10,8 cm
After a design by Natalia Danko. "The Red and The White". On the White side the King is represented as Death, the Queen as Fortuna from whose cornucopia fall gold coins rather than produce, the Knights are armoured horses surmounted with double-headed eagles, and the Rooks are boats; on the Red side, the King is represented as a blacksmith and the Queen is a maiden holding a sickle and a sheaf of corn, the Bishops are soldiers of the Red Army, the Pawns as workers bearing sickles and sheaves of corn. Black or blue manufacturer’s marks (hammer and sickle), some dated 1925 or 1928, two white Pawns with serial numbers. Minor chips, minor wear.
From an important Hessian chess collection
For other examples see the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Chess: East and West, Past and Present, no. 67, 1968 and T.N. Nosovich, I.P. Popova: State Porcelain Manufactory 1904-1944, St. Petersburg Orkestra, 2005, p.351