BY THE LOMONOSOV PORCELAIN FACTORY, LENINGRAD, VARIOUS DATES

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A Soviet Porcelain Figure of a Female Worker and Two Other Figures
By the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory, Leningrad, various dates
After a model by N. Danko, realistically modelled as a factory worker in a long blue skirt, white shirt and red head-scarf, holding an issue of Rabotnitsa and making a speech, on a circular naturalistic base, marked under base with blue overglaze hammer and sickle, reverse of base with imprinted Cyrillic signiature 'N. Danko 1923'; together with a white porcelain model of the head of a Red Army soldier wearing a Budyonovka, on a square base, after the model by B. Yakovlev, apparently unmarked; and a uniformed Red Army soldier on horseback, after a model by N. Danko, circa 1940, marked under base with green overglaze Cyrillic factory monogram 'LFZ'
The worker 7 in. (19 cm.) high (3)

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Lot Essay

For another model of the female worker see G. Agarkova and N. Petrova, 250 Years of Lomonosov Porcelain Manufacture St. Petersburg, 1944-1994, Desentis, 1994, p. 109, illustrated; and N. Lobanov-Rostovsky, Revolutionary Ceramics. Soviet Porcelain 1917-1927, London, 1990, p. 93, fig. 89, illustrated.

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