Red and White chess set

This chess set is the work of the renowned Soviet porcelain masters, sisters Natalia and Elena Danko. “The red” and “the white”, the exemplary “ours” and the evil “others”. The contrast is grotesquely exaggerated: on one side — the anguished looks of white “pawns” entangled in chains, on the other — enthusiastic eyes of red harvesters with golden sheaves. The topless white queen — a personification of vice — and a strong rosy-cheeked worker. The outlived monarch is replaced with a mighty muscular striker on the side of the Reds, and a death knight on the side of the Whites… Ironically, the set was eagerly sought after by representatives of the “old world” outside the borders of the “new world” of Soviet Russia.