15.2 x 14 x 12.4 cm
Inscriptions: Inscribed in gilt Cyrillic italics on inkwell lid: ‘От Ленинград. Губотдела С.Х. ДЕЛЕГАТУ V с’езда В.С.Р.Х. 1/XII 24 г.’ [From the Leningrad Regional Commission of the S.Kh. (Union of Chemists). TO THE DELEGATE of the Fifth Congress of the V.S.R.Kh. (All-Russian Union of Chemical Workers) 1 December 1924]
Inscribed in black overglaze on sheet on top of books: ‘В.И.Ульянов (Ленин)’ [V.I. Ulianov (Lenin)]
Inscribed in black overglaze on spine of bottom book: ‘Собрание сочинений Н.Ленин (В.Ульянов) Том I’ [Sobranie sochinenii N. Lenin (V. Ul’ianov) Tom I]
Inscribed in black around edges of top book: ‘Рабочие / всех стран / соединяйтесь’ [Rabochie / vsekh stran / soediniaites] (Workers of the World, Unite)
Marks: underside, interior: Mark in dark green
cat. no. 68
Imperial Porcelain Factory (1744–1917)
State Porcelain Factory (1917–1925)
Lomonosov State Porcelain Factory (1925–1993)
Lomonosov Porcelain Factory (1993–2005)
Imperial Porcelain Factory (from 2005 to date)