BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, WITH UNDERGLAZE BLUE-GREEN MARK OF HAMMER, SICKLE AND COG DATED 1919, IMPRESSED CYRILLIC SCULPTOR'S SIGNATURE B. LUNIN, OVERGLAZE BLUE ARTIST MARK MB. FOR MARIA ALEXANDROVNA BRIANTZEVA, DATED 1922 AND NUMBERED 213/8.

Maria Alexandrovna Briantseva (1885-1942) graduated from the School for the Deaf and Dumb, St. Petersburg and began studies at the Baron Stieglitz School of Design in 1904. In 1913 she started work at the Imperial Porcelain Factory, where she continued as a painter after the Revolution until 1941. Barianteva was an excellent artist and copyist, noted for her work on figures by Natalia Danko.
(N. Lobanov-Rostovsky, Revolutionary Ceramics Soviet Porcelain 1917-1927, New York, 1990, no.90, pp.93, 143, 154-155.)

Anatoly Lukin was employed in the Imperial Porcelain Factory from 1900's and continued after the revolution as a copyist modeller and sculptor. Lukin reproduced works after the foremost sculptors, such as the Peoples of Russian by Pavel Kamennsky and a portrait medallion of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna by A.A. Grillikhes, before the revolution. His work continued with models after artists such as Alexander Matveyev, Natalya Danko, Dmytry Ivanov and Alexandra Shchekotikhina-Pototskaya.