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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE SCANDINAVIAN COLLECTION
A RARE SOVIET PORCELAIN INKSTAND ‘REAPERESS’
BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1919
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A RARE SOVIET PORCELAIN INKSTAND ‘REAPERESS’
BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1919
After a model by Natalya Danko, realistically modelled and painted as a reclining woman, in a red floral sarafan, white shirt and green headscarf, holding a sickle in her right hand and a basket formed as an inkwell in her left hand, with a detachable cover, reclining on wheat sheaves, marked under base with green underglaze hammer, sickle and cog and date ‘1919’
7 in. (17.8 cm.) wide
BY THE STATE PORCELAIN FACTORY, PETROGRAD, 1919
After a model by Natalya Danko, realistically modelled and painted as a reclining woman, in a red floral sarafan, white shirt and green headscarf, holding a sickle in her right hand and a basket formed as an inkwell in her left hand, with a detachable cover, reclining on wheat sheaves, marked under base with green underglaze hammer, sickle and cog and date ‘1919’
7 in. (17.8 cm.) wide
Provenance
Mikhail Alexeyevich Sergeev (1888-1965), scientist and economist, one of the first commissars of the State Bank of the USSR.
Acquired from the estate of the above by the parents of the present owner.
Acquired from the estate of the above by the parents of the present owner.
Brought to you by
Marina Nekliudova