Vase with an allegorical representation in relief showing fully dressed people in the foreground apparently symbolizing a worker and an intellectual, who are shaking hands, and a female figure above them holding a hammer and a sickle in her raised arms, with a castle and a landscape (?) in the background and the inscription ‘SEVEROČESKY KRAJ’ above
Czechoslovakia, Kamenický Šenov (?), 1960s–1970s
Uncolored cut glass, cutting, polishing, engraving
Height 10"
From the collection of gifts to Leonid Brezhnev
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (1906–1982), Soviet politician and statesman who came to symbolize the ‘stagnation period’ of the Soviet regime. 1964–1966 – First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, 1966–1982 – General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee; Chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet (1960–1964; 1977–1982), Marshal of the Soviet Union from 1976.